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| Strickland Ees, Hawkshead | ||
| Strickland Ees | ||
| locality:- | Esthwaite Water | |
| civil parish:- | Hawkshead (formerly Lancashire) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | headland | |
| coordinates:- | SD35889643 (etc) | |
| 1Km square:- | SD3596 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD39 | |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Lan 5 6) placename:- Strickland Ees |
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| source data:- | Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25
inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton,
Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948. |
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| evidence:- | old print:- Green 1814 (plate 5) item:- cattle |
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| source data:- | Print, tinted soft ground etching, Esthwaite Water, Hawkshead, Lancashire, by William
Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1814. click to enlargeGN1005.jpg The 'island' is a headland, Strickland Ees. Plate 5 in Sixty Small Prints. printed at top right:- "5" printed at bottom:- "ESTHWAITE WATER. / Published at Ambleside Augst. 1, 1814, by Wm. Green." item:- Armitt Library : A6653.5 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old print:- Green 1814 (plate 5) item:- cattle |
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| source data:- | Print, uncoloured soft ground etching, Esthwaite Water, Hawkshead, Lancashire, by
William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1814. click to enlargeGN0905.jpg The 'island' is a headland, Strickland Ees. Plate 5 in Sixty Small Prints. printed at top right:- "5" printed at bottom:- "ESTHWAITE WATER. / Published at Ambleside Augst. 1, 1814, by Wm. Green." item:- Armitt Library : A6656.5 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Green 1814 |
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| source data:- | Set of prints, soft ground etchings, Sixty Small Prints, with
text, A Description of a Series of Sixty Small Prints, by
William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1814. goto sourcepage 5:- "... Esthwaite Water is about two miles in length, and half a mile across. The most striking object on its borders is the promontory at Esthwaite Hall; it shoots boldly to the lake, which is encompassed by gentle hills. ..." |
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