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Clappersgate, Lakes
Clappersgate
civil parish:-   Lakes (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   NY36660348 (etc) 
1Km square:-   NY3603
10Km square:-   NY30
evidence:-   old map:- Saxton 1579
placename:-  Claperyate
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmorlandiae et Cumberlandiae Comitatus ie Westmorland and Cumberland, scale about 5 miles to 1 inch, by Christopher Saxton, London, engraved by Augustinus Ryther, 1576, published 1579-1645.
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Building, symbol for a hamlet, which may or may not have a nucleus.  "Claperyate"
item:-  private collection : 2
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evidence:-   old map:- Speed 1611 (Wmd) 
placename:-  Claperyate
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, The Countie Westmorland and Kendale the Cheif Towne, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Speed, 1610, published by George Humble, Popes Head Alley, London, 1611-12.
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"Claperyate"
circle, tower 
item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.14.5
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evidence:-   old map:- Jansson 1646
placename:-  Claperyate
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Cumbria and Westmoria, ie Cumberland and Westmorland, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Jansson, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1646.
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"Claperyate"
Buildings and tower. 
item:-  JandMN : 88
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evidence:-   hearth tax returns:- Hearth Tax 1675
placename:-  Clappersgate
source data:-   Records, hearth tax survey returns, Westmorland, 1674/75.
"Clappersgate"
in  "Loughrigge and Rydall"
evidence:-   old map:- Morden 1695 (Wmd) 
placename:-  Clapperyate
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmorland, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by Robert Morden, published by Abel Swale, the Unicorn, St Paul's Churchyard, Awnsham, and John Churchill, the Black Swan, Paternoster Row, London, 1695.
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"Clapperyate"
Circle. 
item:-  JandMN : 24
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evidence:-   old map:- Bowen and Kitchin 1760
placename:-  Clapersgate
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, A New Map of the Counties of Cumberland and Westmoreland Divided into their Respective Wards, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Emanuel Bowen and Thomas Kitchin et al, published by T Bowles, Robert Sayer, and John Bowles, London, 1760.
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"Clapersgate"
circle, tower 
item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.14.10
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evidence:-   old map:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd) 
placename:-  Clapersgate
source data:-   Map, 4 sheets, The County of Westmoreland, scale 1 inch to 1 mile, surveyed 1768, and engraved and published by Thomas Jefferys, London, 1770.
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"Clapersgate"
blocks, labelled in italic lowercase text; settlement, village? 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
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evidence:-   old map:- Crosthwaite 1783-94 (Win/Ble) 
placename:-  Clappersgate
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, An Accurate Map of the Grand Lake of Windermere, scale about 2 inches to 1 mile, by Peter Crosthwaite, Keswick, Cumberland, 1783, version published 1819.
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"Clappersgate"
circle and buildings, town or village 
item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.14.102
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evidence:-   old map:- West 1784 map
placename:-  Clappers gate
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, A Map of the Lakes in Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, engraved by Paas, 53 Holborn, London, about 1784.
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item:-  Armitt Library : A1221.1
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evidence:-   old map:- Clarke 1787 map (Windermere N) 
placename:-  Clappersgate
source data:-   Map, A Map of the Northern Part of the Lake Winandermere and its Environs, scale about 6.5 ins to 1 mile, by James Clarke, engraved by Samuel John Neele, 352 Strand, published by James Clarke, Penrith, Cumberland and in London etc, 1787.
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"Clappersgate"
item:-  private collection : 10.10
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evidence:-   old map:- Cary 1789 (edn 1805) 
placename:-  Clapersgate
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Westmoreland, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Cary, London, 1789; edition 1805.
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"Clapersgate"
block/s, labelled in italic lowercase; house, or hamlet 
item:-  JandMN : 129
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evidence:-   old map:- Otley 1818
placename:-  Clappersgate
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, The District of the Lakes, Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Jonathan Otley, 1818, engraved by J and G Menzies, Edinburgh, Scotland, published by Jonathan Otley, Keswick, Cumberland, et al, 1833.
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item:-  JandMN : 48.1
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evidence:-   old print:- Green 1822 (plate 8) 
placename:-  Clappersgate
item:-  fingerpost
source data:-   Print, uncoloured soft ground etching, Clappersgate, Westmorland, by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1822.
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Plate 8 in Forty Etchings from Nature. 
printed at bottom:-  "CLAPPERSGATE. / Etched from Nature by William Green, &Published at Ambleside, Feby. 1, 1822."
item:-  Armitt Library : A6644.8
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evidence:-   old drawing:- Flower 1830s
item:-  Crag Head Cottage
source data:-   Drawing, pencil, cottage, Clappersgate? Westmorland, by John Flower, 1830s?
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ms, lower right  "[J. FLOWER]"
item:-  Armitt Library : 1959.66.1
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evidence:-   old map:- Ford 1839 map
placename:-  Clappergate
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Map of the Lake District of Cumberland, Westmoreland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by Charles Thurnam, Carlisle, and by R Groombridge, 5 Paternoster Row, London, 3rd edn 1843.
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"Clappergate"
item:-  JandMN : 100.1
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evidence:-   old map:- Garnett 1850s-60s H
placename:-  Clappersgate
source data:-   Map of the English Lakes, in Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, 1850s-60s.
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"Clappersgate"
blocks, settlement 
item:-  JandMN : 82.1
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evidence:-   old text:- Martineau 1855
source data:-   Guide book, A Complete Guide to the English Lakes, by Harriet Martineau, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, and by Whittaker and Co, London, 1855; published 1855-76.
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Page 44:-  "... Clappersgate, with its white houses, nestles under Loughrigg, at the head of the lake; ..."
evidence:-   old map:- Prior 1874 map 1
placename:-  Clappersgate
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving or lithograph? Winander Mere, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, 1874.
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"Clappersgate"
block/s; building/s 
item:-  private collection : 133.1
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evidence:-   old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s
source data:-   Photograph, sepia, Windermere lake from above Clappersgate, Windermere, Westmorland, by Herbert Bell, photographer, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s.
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internegative at lower left:-  "H. Bell"
item:-  Armitt Library : ALPS456
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evidence:-   old print:- Green 1809
placename:-  Clappers Gate
source data:-   Print, soft ground etching, Clappers Gate, Westmorland, by William Green, published by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, and Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, Paternoster Row, London, 1809.
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Plate 7 in Seventy Eight Studies from Nature. 
printed in introductory pages to set of prints:-  "Number 7. Clappersgate, is scarcely a mile from Ambleside, on the road to Hawkshead; it consists of about a dozen houses."
printed at bottom:-  "CLAPPERS-GATE. / Pub. Ambleside, Augst. 1st. 1809, by W. Green."
item:-  Armitt Library : A6637.7
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evidence:-   old print with text:- Farington 1789 (plate 10) 
source data:-   Print, engraving, Brathay Bridge, near Ambleside, Lakes, Cumbria, painted by Joseph Farington, engraved by W Byrne and T Medland, published by W Byrne, 69 Titchfield Street, London, 1787.
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From the lower side of the bridge, across which a packhorse is being led. 
Plate 10 from Views of the Lakes, &c, in Cumberland and Westmorland, published 1789; with descriptive text:-  "BRATHAY BRIDGE NEAR AMBLESIDE."
"IT has been already remarked in the preceding set that this country derives no inconsiderable advantage in respect of beauty from the form of it's buildings and bridges. The present view is selected principally with design of illustrating and confirming the observation. The scene itself lies upon the road leading from Ambleside to Hawkshead about a mile distant from the former place. It can hardly fail to attract the notice of the admirer of landscape and has not unfrequently called into exercise the powers of the artist. The long lines and flat roofs so much admired in the Italian buildings are peculiarly striking. The houses form a part of the village of Clappersgate. ..."
item:-  Dove Cottage : Lowther.13
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hearsay:-  
 In the 16th century Clappersgate was a port; there was a wharf on the river where slate was loaded to be taken down Windermere by boat.
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