![]() |
![]() |
|
placename:- | Goat's Water | |
locality:- | Old Man of Coniston | |
parish |
Torver parish, once in
Lancashire
| |
county:- | Cumbria | |
lake | ||
coordinates:- |
SD266976 | |
10Km square:- |
SD29 | |
1Km square | SD2697 | |
![]() Goat's Water -- Old Man of Coniston -- Torver -- Cumbria / -- and Dow Crag. -- 8.9.2010 | ||
![]() Goat's Water -- Old Man of Coniston -- Torver -- Cumbria / -- 8.9.2010 | ||
source:- |
Martineau 1855
| |
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 1855-71. | ||
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. ... | ||
placename:- | Gait's Tarn | |
date:- | 1855 | |
period:- | 19th century, late; 1850s | |
old map:- |
Garnett 1850s-60s H
| |
Map of the English Lakes, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, 1850s-60s. | ||
![]() | ||
Goat Wr. | ||
outline with shore form lines, lake or tarn | ||
placename:- | Goat Water | |
date:- | 1850=1869 | |
period:- | 19th century, late; 1850s; 1860s | |
descriptive text:- |
Ford 1839 (3rd edn 1843)
| |
Description of Scenery in the Lake District, by William Ford, published by Charles Thurnham, London, et al, 1839; published 1839-52. | ||
Page 12:- | ||
... | ||
... Goats Water, whose length is half a mile, and margin stony. ... | ||
placename:- | Goats Water | |
date:- | 1839 | |
period:- | 19th century, early; 1830s | |
descriptive text:- |
Otley 1823 (5th edn 1834)
| |
Guidebook, Concise Description of the English Lakes, later A Description of the English Lakes, by Jonathan Otley, published by the author, Keswick, Cumberland, by J Richardson, London, and by Arthur Foster, Kirky Lonsdale, Cumbria, 1823 onwards. | ||
![]() |
goto source. | |
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. | ||
placename:- | Gates Water | |
other name:- | Goats Water | |
date:- | 1823 | |
period:- | 19th century, early; 1820s | |
source:- |
Otley 1818
| |
New Map of the District of the Lakes, in Westmorland, Cumberland, and Lancashire, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Jonathan Otley, engraved by J and G Menzies, Edinburgh, Lothian, Scotland, published by J Otley, Keswick, Cumberland now Cumbria, 1818; pblished 1818 to 1850s. | ||
![]() | goto source. | |
![]() | ||
lake | ||
old map:- |
Cooke 1802
| |
Maps, Westmoreland, Cumberland, etc, now Cumbria, by George Alexander Cooke, London, 1802-10; published 1802-24. | ||
![]() | ||
Goats Tarn | ||
outline with form lines; lake or tarn | ||
placename:- | Goats Tarn | |
county:- | Lancashire | |
date:- | 1802 | |
period:- | 19th century, early; 1800s | |
old map:- |
West 1784 map
| |
A Map of the Lakes in Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire, now Cumbria, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, engraved by Paas, 53 Holborn, London, included in the Guide to the Lakes by Thomas West, published by William Pennington, Kendal, Westmorland, and in London, from the 3rd edition 1784, to 1821. | ||
![]() | goto source. | |
![]() | ||
placename:- | Goats Tarn | |
lake | ||
county:- | Lancashire | |
photographs | ||
![]() | Goat's Water -- Old Man of Coniston -- Torver -- Cumbria / -- 8.9.2010 | |
![]() | Goat's Water -- Old Man of Coniston -- Torver -- Cumbria / -- A stone by the tarn; what? -- 8.9.2010 | |
Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2013 | ||