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Easedale, Lakes
Easedale
civil parish:-   Lakes (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   valley
coordinates:-   NY32540835 (etc) 
1Km square:-   NY3208
10Km square:-   NY30

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evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 18 16) 
placename:-  Easedale
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.
evidence:-   old map:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd) 
placename:-  Easedale
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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"Easedale"
circle, labelled in italic lowercase text; settlement, farm, house, or hamlet? 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland
evidence:-   old print:- Green 1814 (plate 24) 
placename:-  Easedale
item:-  cattle
source data:-   Print, tinted soft ground etching, Easedale from Butterlip How, Grasmere, Westmorland, by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1814.
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Plate 24 in Sixty Small Prints. 
printed at top right:-  "24"
printed at bottom:-  "EASEDALE FROM BUTTERLIP HOW. / Published at Ambleside Augst. 1, 1814, by Wm. Green."
item:-  Armitt Library : A6653.24
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evidence:-   old print:- Green 1814 (plate 24) 
placename:-  Easedale
item:-  cattle
source data:-   Print, uncoloured soft ground etching, Easedale from Butterlip How, Grasmere, Westmorland, by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1814.
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Plate 24 in Sixty Small Prints. 
printed at top right:-  "24"
printed at bottom:-  "EASEDALE FROM BUTTERLIP HOW. / Published at Ambleside Augst. 1, 1814, by Wm. Green."
item:-  Armitt Library : A6656.24
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evidence:-   old text:- Green 1814
placename:-  Easedale
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.
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page 13:-  "..."
"Easedale is a romantic and secluded valley branching out of Grasmere; ..."
evidence:-   old map:- Otley 1818
placename:-  Easdale
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:-   descriptive text:- Ford 1839 (3rd edn 1843) 
placename:-  Easedale
source data:-   Guide book, A Description of Scenery in the Lake District, by Rev William Ford, published by Charles Thurnam, Carlisle, by W Edwards, 12 Ave Maria Lane, Charles Tilt, Fleet Street, William Smith, 113 Fleet Street, London, by Currie and Bowman, Newcastle, by Bancks and Co, Manchester, by Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh, and by Sinclair, Dumfries, 1839.
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Page 43:-  "..."
"EASEDALE."
"Coldale Fell separates the Easedales. Passing"
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Page 44:-  "over Butterlip How, a little rocky and wooded hill north of the inn, proceed to Goody Bridge. Here the road rises into this quiet dale, and affords a glorious panorama of the surrounding vale, embracing the lake, church, and neighbouring dwellings, with Loughrigg behind. ... It will be pleasanter to return the same way back, than to pass forward, as may be done by pedestrians, either into Borrodale or Wythburn Head."
evidence:-   old map:- Ford 1839 map
placename:-  Easdale
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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"Easdale"
Between hill hachures. 
item:-  JandMN : 100.1
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evidence:-   old map:- Garnett 1850s-60s H
placename:-  Easedale
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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"Easedale"
river valley 
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 50:-  "... He proceeds for a mile between fences before he reaches the opening of Easedale. The gate"
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Page 51:-  "and shrubbery to the right are the entrance to Lady Richardson's cottage; and there the regular road ends. The car can go about a mile further along the farm tracks in the valley, through the meadows which yield a coarse hay, and near the stream which is tufted with alders. At the farm house where the car stops, the people will shew the stranger the way he must go,- past the plantation, and up the hill side, where he will find the track that will guide him up to the waterfall,- the foaming cataract, which is seen all over the valley, and is called Sour Milk Ghyll Force. The water and the track together will show him the way to the tarn, which is the source of the stream. Up and on he goes, over rock and through wet moss, with long stretches of dry turf and purple heather; and at last, when he is heated and breathless, the dark cool recess opens in which lies Easedale Tarn. ..."
evidence:-   old drawing:- Brockbank 1870s
placename:-  Easedale
source data:-   Drawing, pencil and ink wash, roche moutonnee, Easedale, Grasmere, Westmorland, July 1871, used by William Brockbank.
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"Roches moutonnees - / Easedale July 1871 -"
"Glaciated Rocks. Easedale / Wm. Brockbank FGS. / 25"
item:-  Armitt Library : 1959.68.25
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evidence:-   old drawing:- Brockbank 1870s
placename:-  Easedale
source data:-   Drawing, pencil and ink wash, glacial erratic, below Easedale Tarn, Easedale, Grasmere, Westmorland, September 1872, used by William Brockbank.
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"Below Easedale tarn. / Sept 1872"
"Easedale / Wm. Brockbank. [F G ] / 20"
item:-  Armitt Library : 1959.68.20
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evidence:-   perhaps old print:- Prior 1865
source data:-   Print, uncoloured engraving, perhaps Easedale, Westmorland, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, and by Simpkin, Marshall and Co, London, 1865.
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Included on page 14 of the guide book, Ascents and Passes in the Lake District of England, by Herman Prior. 
item:-  JandMN : 235.4
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evidence:-   old painting:- 
placename:-  Easedale
source data:-   Painting, watercolour, Easedale, Westmorland, by Samuel Bough, 1850.
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View across the valley from an elevated perspective; two lightly sketched figures rest on the hillside in foreground. A farmstead stands in middle distance beyond which rise barren fells. 
inscribed & dated &signed at bottom right:-  "Easdale Sep 1850 Sam Bough"
item:-  Tullie House Museum : 1960.52.2
Image © Tullie House Museum

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BNR36.jpg (taken 22.5.2007)  
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