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| civil parish:- | Hawkshead (formerly Lancashire) | |||
| county:- | Cumbria | |||
| locality type:- | locality | |||
| locality type:- | buildings | |||
| locality type:- | market town | |||
| locality type:- | selected place | |||
| coordinates:- | SD35209812 (etc) | |||
| 1Km square:- | SD3598 | |||
| 10Km square:- | SD39 | |||
| latitude; longitude:- | 2d 59.9m W; 54d 22.5m N | |||
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Lan 5 2) placename:- Hawkshead |
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| 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. |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Saxton 1579 placename:- Haukeside |
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| 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 Church, symbol for a parish or village, with a parish church. "Haukeside" item:- private collection : 2 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Mercator 1595 (edn?) placename:- Haukeshead |
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| source data:- | Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmorlandia, Lancastria, Cestria
etc, ie Westmorland, Lancashire, Cheshire etc, scale about 10.5
miles to 1 inch, by Gerard Mercator, Duisberg, Germany, 1595,
edition 1613-16. MER5LanA.jpg "Haukeshead" circle item:- Armitt Library : 2008.14.3 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Speed 1611 (Wmd) placename:- Haukeside |
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| 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 "Haukeside" circle, building and tower item:- Armitt Library : 2008.14.5 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | table of distances:- Simons 1635 placename:- Hawkeside |
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| source data:- | Table of distances, uncoloured engraving, Westmerland ie
Westmorland, with a thumbnail map, scale about 42 miles to 1
inch, by Mathew Simons, published in A Direction for the English
Traviller, 1635. click to enlargeSIM3.jpg "Hawkeside W" and tabulated distances item:- private collection : 50.39 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Sanson 1679 placename:- Haukeshead |
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| source data:- | Map, hand coloured engraving, Ancien Royaume de Northumberland
aujourdhuy Provinces de Nort, ie the Ancient Kingdom of
Northumberland or the Northern Provinces, scale about 9.5 miles
to 1 inch, by Nicholas Sanson, Paris, France, 1679. click to enlargeSAN2Cm.jpg "Haukeshead" circle, italic lowercase text; village or house item:- Dove Cottage : 2007.38.15 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Morden 1695 (EW) placename:- Hawkshead |
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| source data:- | Map, hand coloured engraving, England, including Wales, scale
about 27 miles to 1 inch, by Robert Morden, published by Abel
Swale Awnsham and John Churchil, London, about 1695. click to enlargeMRD3Cm.jpg "Hawkshead" circle; village or town item:- JandMN : 339 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Morden 1695 (Cmd) placename:- Hawkshead |
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| source data:- | Map, uncoloured engraving, Cumberland, scale about 4 miles to 1
inch, by Robert Morden, 1695, published by Abel Swale, the
Unicorn, St Paul's Churchyard, Awnsham, and John Churchill, the
Black Swan, Paternoster Row, London, 1695-1715. MD12SD39.jpg "Hawkshead" Circle, buildings, towers. item:- JandMN : 90 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Morden 1695 (Wmd) placename:- Haukeside |
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| 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. MD10SD39.jpg "Haukeside" Circle. item:- JandMN : 24 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Bowen and Kitchin 1760 placename:- Hawkshead |
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| 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 "Hawkshead" circle, tower, town item:- Armitt Library : 2008.14.10 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd) placename:- Hawkshead |
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| 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. J5SD39NE.jpg "HAWKSHEAD" blocks on a street plan, labelled in block caps; settlement, market town? item:- National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47 Image © National Library of Scotland |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Pennant 1777 placename:- Hawkshead |
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| source data:- | Map, hand coloured engraving, A Map of Scotland, Hebrides and
Part of England, drawn for Thomas Pennant, engraved by J Bayly,
published by Benjamin White, London, 1777. click to enlargePEN1Cm.jpg "Hawkshead" circle; buildings, village, etc item:- private collection : 66 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | descriptive text:- West 1778 (11th edn 1821) |
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| 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. goto sourcePage 55:- "... Hawkshead, which stands under a mountain, at the upper end of a narrow valley. The church is seated on the front of an eminence that commands the vale, which is floated with" "ESTHWAITE-WATER," |
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| evidence:- | old map:- West 1784 map placename:- Hawkshead |
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| 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. Ws02SD39.jpg "HAWKSHEAD" item:- Armitt Library : A1221.1 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Clarke 1787 placename:- Hawkshead item:- market |
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| source data:- | Guide book, A Survey of the Lakes of Cumberland, Westmorland,
and Lancashire, written and published by James Clarke, Penrith,
Cumberland, and in London etc, 1787; published 1787-93. goto source Page 146:- "..." "We will next return to Hawkshead, a little market-town about four miles from Ambleside, pleasantly situated at the foot of a range of small mountains, covered chiefly with wood. On the south side of the valley, in the middle of which is a Lake called Estthwaite-water, ... At Hawkshead is a grammar-school ... it also makes this place much resorted to by the families who visit their children here in Summer; its market is weekly, on Mondays." |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Camden 1789 (Gough Additions) placename:- Hawkshead |
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| source data:- | Book, Britannia, or A Chorographical Description of the Flourishing Kingdoms of England,
Scotland, and Ireland, by William Camden, 1586, translated from the 1607 Latin edition
by Richard Gough, published London, 1789. goto source Page 143:- "..." "Hawkshead, the 4th market town in Furness, is built in an odd fashion, the birth-place of archbishop Sandys, who here founded a grammar-school and made the church parochial; in which his father and mother have a tomb. The trade of this place and Coniston is woollen yarn. ..." |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Cary 1789 (edn 1805) placename:- Hawkshead |
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| source data:- | Map, uncoloured engraving, Westmoreland, scale about 2.5 miles
to 1 inch, by John Cary, London, 1789; edition 1805. CY24SD39.jpg "HAWKSHEAD" blocks, church symbol, labelled in upright lowercase; village item:- JandMN : 129 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | road book:- Cary 1798 (2nd edn 1802) placename:- Hawkshead |
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| source data:- | Road book, itineraries, Cary's New Itinerary, by John Cary, 181
Strand, London, 2nd edn 1802. goto source click to enlargeC38319.jpg page 319-320 "Hawkshead" market town item:- JandMN : 228.1 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | descriptive text:- Baker 1802 placename:- Hawrshead |
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| source data:- | Perspective road map with sections in Lancashire, Westmorland,
and Cumberland, by J Baker, London 1802. pp.25-26:- "... Easthwaite is found by passing the town of Hawrshead, ..." |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Cooke 1802 placename:- Hawkshead |
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| source data:- | Map, Lancashire, scale about 18 miles to 1 inch, by George
Cooke, 1802, bound in Gray's New Book of Roads, 1824, published
by Sherwood, Jones and Co, Paternoster Road, London, 1824. click to enlargeGRA1La.jpg "Hawkshead / 273" blocks, upright lowercase text; town, distance from London item:- Hampshire Museums : FA2000.62.6 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Cooke 1802 placename:- Hawkshead |
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| 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. click to enlargeGRA1Lk.jpg "Hawkshead" blocks, upright lowercase text; town item:- Hampshire Museums : FA2000.62.5 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Laurie and Whittle 1806 placename:- Hawkshead |
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| 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. click to enlargeLw18.jpg "Hawkshead 267ΒΌ" market town; distance from London item:- private collection : 18.18 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Capper 1808 placename:- Hawkshead item:- population; market; fair |
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| source data:- | Gazetteer, A Topographical Dictionary of the United Kingdom,
compiled by Benjamin Pitts Capper, published by Richard
Phillips, Bridge Street, Blackfriars, London, 1808; published
1808-29. goto source "..." "HAWKSHEAD, a market-town and parish in the hundred of Lonsdale, Lancaster, 13 miles from Cartmel, and 277 from London; containing 152 houses and 634 inhabitants. It lies at the extremity of Lancashire near the lake Esthwaite; ... Hawkshead is the principal town in what is called the district of Furness, ... There is a free grammar school here for 100 boys. Its market is on Monday, and fairs on Easter-Monday, Monday before Holy-Thursday, Whit-Monday, and October 2. The church is a curacy, in the patronage of the king as duke of Lancaster." "..." |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Wallis 1810 (Wmd) placename:- Hawkshead |
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| source data:- | Road map, Westmoreland, scale about 19 miles to 1 inch, by James
Wallis, 77 Berwick Street, Soho, 1810, published by W Lewis,
Finch Lane, London, 1835? click to enlargeWAL5.jpg "Hawkshead" town item:- JandMN : 63 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Otley 1818 placename:- Hawkshead |
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| 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. OT02SD39.jpg "HAWKSHEAD" item:- JandMN : 48.1 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Perrot 1823 placename:- Hewkshead |
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| source data:- | Map, hand coloured engraving, Cumberland and Westmoreland ie
Westmorland, scale about 38 miles to 1 inch, by Aristide Michel
Perrot, engraved by Migneret, 1823, published by Etienne Ledoux,
9 Rue Guenegaud, Paris, France, 1824-48. click to enlargePER2.jpg "Hewkshead" no symbol item:- Dove Cottage : 2007.38.45 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Greenwood 1824 (Lan) placename:- Hawkshead |
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| source data:- | Map of the County Palatine of Lancashire, scale about 1 inch to
1 mile, surveyed by C Greenwood, drawn by R Creighton, engraved
by S Neele and Son, published by W Fowler and C Greenwood,
Wakefield, Yorkshire and Leicester Square, London, 1818. grw6hwks.jpg "HAWKSHEAD" street map; labelled in block caps for a market town. item:- Armitt Library : A1824 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | descriptive text:- Ford 1839 (3rd edn 1843) placename:- Hawkshead item:- population, Hawkshead; market day |
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| 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. goto source Page 15:- "..." "HAWKSHEAD" "Stands in a warm sheltered valley, and the small" goto sourcePage 16:- "round-topped verdant elevations, give a softness and beauty to this part of the lake scenery that can scarcely be excelled. The town is of great antiquity, and several of the houses are old, singular, artist-like subjects. The Old Hall of the abbots of Furness is now a farm-house. The market-place is pretty spacious, and has a neat town-house erected a few years ago. ..." goto sourcePage 158:- "..." "HAWKSHEAD is a neat small market-town, standing in a warm and sheltered valley, surrounded by the lofty fells of Furness, and is doubtless of great antiquity, although there is no authentic record of its origin. The Free Grammar School has been the nursing mother of many eminent scholars. The beautiful and pastoral lake, Esthwaite Water, may very conveniently be perambulated from this place, and comfortable quarters may be had at the Red Lion. Population, 749; market-day, Monday." |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Ford 1839 map placename:- Hawkshead |
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| 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. FD02SD39.jpg "HAWKSHEAD" item:- JandMN : 100.1 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Garnett 1850s-60s H placename:- Hawkshead |
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| 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. GAR2SD39.jpg "Hawkshead" blocks, settlement item:- JandMN : 82.1 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old print:- Payn 1867 |
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| source data:- | Print, uncoloured engraving, The Valley of Esthwaite, from Iron Keld, Hawkshead, Lancashire,
by T L Aspland, published by J Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, 1867. click to enlargePN0326.jpg On p.52 of The Lakes in Sunshine, text by James Payn. printed at bottom:- "THE VALLEY OF ESTHWAITE, FROM IRON KELD." item:- Fell and Rock Climbing Club : 184.26 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s |
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| source data:- | Photograph, black and white, Priest Pot, Claife, and Hawkshead, Lancashire, by Herbert
Bell, photographer, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s. click to enlargeHB0581.jpg internegative at lower right:- "H. Bell" stamped on reverse:- "HERBERT BELL / Photograph / AMBLESIDE" item:- Armitt Library : ALPS241 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old print:- Philip/Wilson 1890s |
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| source data:- | Print, engraving, Esthwaite and Hawkshead, published by George
Philip and Son, London, Philip, Son and Nephew, Liverpool,
Lancashire, and Titus Wilson, Kendal, Westmorland, about 1895. click to enlargePW1E15.jpg "ESTHWAITE AND HAWKSHEAD." item:- JandMN : 58.16 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Postlethwaite 1877 (3rd edn 1913) placename:- Hawkshead |
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| source data:- | Map, uncoloured engraving, Map of the Lake District Mining Field, Westmorland, Cumberland,
Lancashire, scale about 5 miles to 1 inch, by John Postlethwaite, published by W H
Moss and Sons, 13 Lowther Street, Whitehaven, Cumberland, 1877 edn 1913. PST2SD39.jpg "HAWKSHEAD" dots, road item:- JandMN : 162.2 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | :- item:- market |
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| source data:- | Owen: 1792: New Book of Fairs | |||
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| evidence:- | old print:- MacBride 1922 placename:- Hawkshead |
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| source data:- | Print, colour, Hawkshead, by Alfred Heaton Cooper, published by Adam and Charles Black,
4-6 Soho Square, London, 2nd edn 1928. click to enlargeMB0112.jpg Tipped in opposite p.81 in Wild Lakeland by MacKenzie MacBride. printed at bottom:- "HAWKSHEAD" signed at lower left:- "A. HEATON COOPER" item:- JandMN : 195.14 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old print:- Robertson 1911 |
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| source data:- | Print, lithograph? Anne Tyson's Cottage, Hawkshead, from a watercolour by Arthur Tucker,
published by Chatto and Windus, London, 1911. click to enlargeRSN129.jpg Tipped in opposite p.140 of Wordsworthshire by Eric Robertson. printed at bottom:- "ANNE TYSON'S COTTAGE, HAWKSHEAD / (Upper window on right was Wordworth's)" signed at painting lower left:- "Arthur Tucker" item:- JandMN : 197.30 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old print:- Robertson 1911 |
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| source data:- | Print, lithograph? Flag Street, Hawkshead, from a watercolour by Arthur Tucker, published
by Chatto and Windus, London, 1911. click to enlargeRSN128.jpg Tipped in opposite p.134 of Wordsworthshire by Eric Robertson. printed at bottom:- "FLAG STREET, HAWKSHEAD" signed at painting lower left:- "Arthur Tucker" item:- JandMN : 197.29 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old print:- Robertson 1911 |
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| source data:- | Print, lithograph? Cottages, High Hawkshead, from a watercolour by Arthur Tucker,
published by Chatto and Windus, London, 1911. click to enlargeRSN126.jpg Tipped in opposite p.110 of Wordsworthshire by Eric Robertson. printed at bottom:- "COTTAGES, HIGH HAWKSHEAD" signed at painting lower left:- "Arthur Tucker" item:- JandMN : 197.27 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old print:- Robertson 1911 |
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| source data:- | Print, lithograph? Mrs Hodgson's Cottage, Hawkshead, from a watercolour by Arthur
Tucker, published by Chatto and Windus, London, 1911. click to enlargeRSN123.jpg Tipped in opposite p.102 of Wordsworthshire by Eric Robertson. printed at bottom:- "MRS HODGSON'S COTTAGE, HAWKSHEAD / (Upper room said by some to be Wordsworth's)" signed at painting lower left:- "Arthur Tucker" item:- JandMN : 197.24 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old print:- Robertson 1911 placename:- Hawkshead |
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| source data:- | Print, lithograph? Hawkshead, from a watercolour by Arthur Tucker, published by Chatto
and Windus, London, 1911. click to enlargeRSN116.jpg Tipped in opposite p.64 of Wordsworthshire by Eric Robertson. printed at bottom:- "HAWKSHEAD / ('Priest's Pot' Pool in foreground; Weatherlam covered with snow)" signed at painting lower left:- "Arthur Tucker" item:- JandMN : 197.16 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old print:- Pearson 1900s placename:- Hawkshead |
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| source data:- | Print, halftone photograph, A Street in Hawkshead, Lancashire, published by C Arthur
Pearson, Henrietta Street, London, 1900s. click to enlargePS1E35.jpg On p.91 of Pearson's Gossipy Guide to the English Lakes and Neighbouring Districts. printed at bottom:- "A STREET IN HAWKSHEAD. (p.90)." item:- Armitt Library : A1188.42 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old print:- Pearson 1900s placename:- Hawkshead |
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| source data:- | Print, halftone photograph, Old House, Hawkshead, Lancashire, published by C Arthur
Pearson, Henrietta Street, London, 1900s. click to enlargePS1E06.jpg On p.10 of Pearson's Gossipy Guide to the English Lakes and Neighbouring Districts. printed at bottom:- "OLD HOUSE, HAWKSHEAD. (p.90)." item:- Armitt Library : A1188.13 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old photograph:- Bogg 1898 item:- Flag Street |
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| source data:- | Photograph, halftone print, Flag Street, Hawkshead, Lancashire, published by Edmund
Bogg, 3 Woodhouse Lane, and James Miles, Guildford Street, Leeds, Yorkshire, 1898. click to enlargeBGG187.jpg Included on p.217 of Lakeland and Ribblesdale, by Edmund Bogg. item:- JandMN : 231.87 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old print:- Bogg 1898 item:- Dame Tyson's Cottage |
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| source data:- | Print, engraving, Dame Tyson's Cottage, Hawkshead, Lancashre, by A Haselgrave, 1897,
published by Edmund Bogg, 3 Woodhouse Lane, and James Miles, Guildford Street, Leeds,
Yorkshire, 1898. click to enlargeBGG185.jpg Included on p.216 of Lakeland and Ribblesdale, by Edmund Bogg. item:- JandMN : 231.85 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old print:- placename:- Hawkshead |
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| source data:- | Print, uncoloured engraving, Hawkshead, Lancashire, published 1870. click to enlargePR0216.jpg On p.69 of Furness, Past and Present. printed at bottom:- "HAWKSHEAD." item:- Dove Cottage : 2008.107.216 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old print:- Jopling 1843 placename:- Hawkshead placename:- Hawcoat |
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| source data:- | Print, Hawkshead, Lancashire, by Charles M Jopling, published by Whittaker and Co,
Ave Maria Lane, London and by Stephen Soulby, Ulverston, Cumberland, 1843. click to enlargeJP1E08.jpg On p.35 of a Sketch of Furness and Cartmel, by Charles M Jopling. The accompanying text refers to:- "Hawcoat" item:- Armitt Library : A1636.9 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old print:- Goodwin 1887 (edn 1890) item:- sunrise; dawn |
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| source data:- | Print, etching? The Hawkshead Morning Walk, Lancashire, by Harry Goodwin, published
by Swan Sonnenschein and Co, Paternoster Square, London, 1890. click to enlargePR1580.jpg Tipped in opposite p.40 of Through the Wordsworth Country, by William Knight. printed at lower right of centre:- "And in the meadows and the lower ground / Was all the sweetness of a common dawn / Prelude Book IV" item:- JandMN : 382.10 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old drawing:- placename:- Hawkeshead |
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| source data:- | Drawing, At Hawkeshead, Lancashire, by John Harper, 1840. click to enlargePR1385.jpg View of Lakeland vernacular buildings in Hawkeshead featuring group of domestic buildings. Executed in pencil with touches of white gouache on buff coloured paper. Preparatory sketch drawn on the spot by the artist. at bottom right:- "At Hawkeshead. 27 Aug./40" item:- Tullie House Museum : 2009.89.28 Image © Tullie House Museum |
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| hearsay:- |
In the Act against vermin, 1566, Parliament decided that each parish should be responsible
for exterminating the fox. The bounty on a fox's head was one shilling; about the
17th century, Hawkshead was paying five shillings. |
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| hearsay:- |
In Hawkshead, wiggs are tea cakes. Samuel Pepys took his wiggs with ale. |
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| hearsay:- |
The parish accounts, 1689, record that William Braithwaite and William Stamper, apprentices,
made a bet with Bernard Swainson, apprentice, that he could not drink nine noggins
of brandy - a noggin is a quarter pint. Bernard drank up:- |
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| "... and shortly after that fell downe upon the floore; and was straightway carried
to his bed where hee layed two and twenty hours; dureinge which time hee could never
speke, noe, nor never did know any body though many Came to See him and Soe he dyed." |
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Craig Gibson:- |
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| "A quaint old town is Hawkshead, and an ancient look it wears, Its church, its school, its dwellings, its streets, its lanes, its squares, Are all irregularities - all angles, twists, and crooks, With pent-houses and gables over archways, lanes, and nooks." |
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| date:- | 1608 |
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| period:- | 17th century, early | |||
| item:- | charter; market charter |
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| Market charter granted 1608, Monday market, and 2 fairs each year. |
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