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Goat's Water, Torver
runs into:-    Torver Beck
Goat's Water
locality:-   Old Man of Coniston
civil parish:-   Torver (formerly Lancashire)
civil parish:-   Coniston (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   tarn
coordinates:-   SD26619766 (etc) 
1Km square:-   SD2697
10Km square:-   SD29
altitude:-   1650 feet
altitude:-   503m

photograph
BTN42.jpg  and Dow Crag.
(taken 8.9.2010)  
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BTN44.jpg (taken 8.9.2010)  
evidence:-   old map:- West 1784 map
placename:-  Goats Tarn
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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Ws02SD29.jpg
item:-  Armitt Library : A1221.1
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evidence:-   old map:- Cooke 1802
placename:-  Goats Tarn
source data:-   Map, The Lakes, Westmorland and Cumberland, scale about 8.5 miles to 1 inch, engravedby Neele and Son, published by Sherwood, Jones and Co, Paternoster Road, London, 1824.
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GRA1Lk.jpg
"Goats Tarn"
outline with form lines; lake or tarn 
item:-  Hampshire Museums : FA2000.62.5
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evidence:-   old map:- Laurie and Whittle 1806
placename:-  Goats Water
source data:-   Road map, Completion of the Roads to the Lakes, scale about 10 miles to 1 inch, by Nathaniel Coltman? 1806, published by Robert H Laurie, 53 Fleet Street, London, 1834.
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Lw18.jpg
"Goats Water"
lake 
item:-  private collection : 18.18
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evidence:-   old map:- Otley 1818
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:- Otley 1823 (5th edn 1834) 
placename:-  Gates Water
placename:-  Goats Water
item:-  trout; char; fishing
source data:-   Guide book, A Concise Description of the English Lakes, the mountains in their vicinity, and the roads by which they may be visited, with remarks on the mineralogy and geology of the district, by Jonathan Otley, published by the author, Keswick, Cumberland now Cumbria, by J Richardson, London, and by Arthur Foster, Kirkby Lonsdale, Cumbria, 1823; published 1823-49, latterly as the Descriptive Guide to the English Lakes.
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Page 36:-  "... Gates Water, (Goats Water) reposes between the Old Man's western side, and the foot of the precipitous Dow Crag; (Dove Crag.) Besides being in common with the other tarns stocked with trout, it also contains some char. Its stream forms the rivulet of Torver."
evidence:-   descriptive text:- Ford 1839 (3rd edn 1843) 
placename:-  Goats Water
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 12:-  "..."
"... Goats Water, whose length is half a mile, and margin stony. ..."
evidence:-   old drawing:- Aspland 1840s-60s
placename:-  Goats Water
source data:-   Drawing, pencil, Goat's Water, Torver and Coniston, Lancashire, by Theophilus Lindsey Aspland, 27 July 1852.
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"Goats Water. cliffs should be higher up."
page number  "(12)"
item:-  Armitt Library : 1958.390.16
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evidence:-   old map:- Garnett 1850s-60s H
placename:-  Goat Water
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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"Goat Wr."
outline with shore form lines, lake or tarn 
item:-  JandMN : 82.1
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evidence:-   old text:- Martineau 1855
placename:-  Gait's Tarn
item:-  fox
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 168:-  "... Where Dow Crag and the Old Man join, a dark and solemn tarn lies beneath the precipice, as he will see from above, whence it lies due west, far below. Round three sides of this Gait's Tarn, the rock is precipitous; and on the other, the crags are piled in grotesque fashion, and so as to afford,- as does much of this side of the mountain,- a great harbourage for foxes, against which the neighbouring population are for ever waging war. ..."
evidence:-   old photograph:- Marr 1916
placename:-  Goatswater
source data:-   Photograph, halftone print, Goatswater, Coniston, Cumberland, 1916.
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item:-  JandMN : 173.36
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BTN43.jpg (taken 8.9.2010)  
photograph
BTN45.jpg  A stone by the tarn; what?
(taken 8.9.2010)  
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