Old Cumbria Gazetteer

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	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.
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		... 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.
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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.
	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.
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		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.
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	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

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