Old Cumbria Gazetteer - Great Langdale Beck

Great Langdale Beck

runs into:-

Elter Water

civil parish:-

Lakes (formerly Westmorland)

county:-

Cumbria

locality type:-

river

1Km square:-

NY3105

10Km square:-

NY30

BPF34.jpg At New Bridge, Chapel Stile.
(taken 20.5.2008)
photograph

BUP64.jpg (taken 19.5.2011)

evidence:-

old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 25 3)
placename:- Great Langdale Beck
placename:- Langdale Beck, Great

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.
OS County Series (Wmd 25 7)
OS County Series (Wmd 25 8)

evidence:-

old map:- Saxton 1579

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.

Sax9NY30.jpg
item:- private collection : 2
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evidence:-

old map:- Speed 1611 (Wmd)

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.

SP14NY30.jpg
wiggly line, into the Brathay
item:- Armitt Library : 2008.14.5
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evidence:-

old map:- Jansson 1646

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.

JAN3NY30.jpg
Single wiggly line.
item:- JandMN : 88
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evidence:-

old map:- Morden 1695 (Wmd)

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.

MD10NY30.jpg
From Gt Langdale into Brathay.
item:- JandMN : 24
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evidence:-

old map:- Simpson 1746 map (Wmd)

source data:-

Map, uncoloured engraving, Westmorland, scale about 8 miles to 1 inch, printed by R Walker, Fleet Lane, London, 1746.

SMP2NYF.jpg
Wiggly line.
item:- Dove Cottage : 2007.38.59
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evidence:-

old map:- Bowen and Kitchin 1760

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.

BO18SD29.jpg
wiggly line, into the Brathay
item:- Armitt Library : 2008.14.10
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evidence:-

old map:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd)

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.

J5NY30NW.jpg
single or double wiggly line; river
item:- National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland

evidence:-

descriptive text:- West 1778 (11th edn 1821)

source data:-

Guide book, A Guide to the Lakes, by Thomas West, published by William Pennington, Kendal, Cumbria once Westmorland, and in London, 1778 to 1821.

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Rev Plumtre's Night Piece on Windermere, 1797
Page 230:- "..."
"[the Brathay] ... / Tumbling, from rock to rock, his course, / With wild majestic, sullen force; /"

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Page 231:- "Till to his sister's [1] arms he flies, /"
"[1] The river Brathay is formed chiefly from two steams,- the one rising in Little Langdale, the other in Great Langdale, where it passes the Pikes and the slate quarry: these join in the small lake of Elter-water. ..."

evidence:-

old map:- West 1784 map

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.

Ws02NY20.jpg

Ws02NY30.jpg
item:- Armitt Library : A1221.1
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evidence:-

old map:- Cary 1789 (edn 1805)

source data:-

Map, uncoloured engraving, Westmoreland, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Cary, London, 1789; edition 1805.

CY24NY30.jpg
river running into Elter Water
item:- JandMN : 129
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evidence:-

old print:- Green 1814 (plate 16)
item:- fishing

source data:-

Print, uncoloured soft ground etching, Scene near Langdale Chapel, by Great Langdale Beck, Westmorland, by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1814.

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GN0916.jpg
Plate 16 in Sixty Small Prints.
printed at top right:- "16"
printed at bottom:- "SCENE NEAR LANGDALE CHAPEL. / Published at Ambleside Augst. 1, 1814, by Wm. Green."
item:- Armitt Library : A6656.16
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evidence:-

old print:- Green 1814 (plate 16)
item:- fishing

source data:-

Print, tinted soft ground etching, Scene near Langdale Chapel, by Great Langdale Beck, Westmorland, by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1814.

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GN1016.jpg
Plate 16 in Sixty Small Prints.
printed at top right:- "16"
printed at bottom:- "SCENE NEAR LANGDALE CHAPEL. / Published at Ambleside Augst. 1, 1814, by Wm. Green."
item:- Armitt Library : A6653.16
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evidence:-

old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s

source data:-

Photograph, sepia, Great Langdale Beck, Langdale, Westmorland, by Herbert Bell, photographer, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s.

evidence:-

probably old print:- Green 1809
item:- footbridge

source data:-

Print, soft ground etching, Wooden Bridge in Langdale, Westmorland, by William Green, published by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, and Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, Paternoster Row, London, 1809.

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GN0367.jpg
Plate 67 in Seventy Eight Studies from Nature.
printed in introductory pages to set of prints:- "Number 67. This Wooden Bridge is over the principal stream flowing through Great Langdale; Loggan House, (the 35th of this series of prints) is seen beyond the bridge on the margin of the mountain."
printed at bottom:- "WOODEN BRIDGE AT LANGDALE. / Published Ambleside, Augst. 1st. 1809, by W. Green."
item:- Armitt Library : A6637.67
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places:-

NY28560600 bridge, Great Langdale (Lakes)

NY28500599 bridge, Great Langdale (2) (Lakes)

NY31040617 bridge, Great Langdale (3) (Lakes)

NY32750475 Elterwater Bridge (Lakes) L

NY32750474 Elterwater Mill (Lakes) suggested

NY31720535 New Bridge (Lakes)

NY29150610 Rossett Bridge (Lakes)

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