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Hayeswater
runs into:-    Hayeswater Gill
civil parish:-   Patterdale (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   tarn
coordinates:-   NY43111220 (etc) 
1Km square:-   NY4312
10Km square:-   NY41
altitude:-   1395 feet
altitude:-   425m

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BNO89.jpg (taken 18.4.2007)  
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BQK85.jpg (taken 16.4.2009)  
evidence:-   descriptive text:- 
source data:-   Hayswater by Matthew Arnold:-  "A region desolate and wild,
Black, chafing water, and afloat,
And lonely as a truant child
In a waste wood, a single boat:
No mast, no sails are set thereon;
It moves, but never moveth on;
And welters like a human thing
Amid the wild waves weltering."
"Behind, a buried vale doth sleep,
Far down the torrent cleaves its way:
In front the dumb rock rises steep,
A fretted wall of blue and grey;
Of shooting cliff and crumbled stone
With many a wild weed overgrown;
All esle, black water; and afloat.
One rood from shore, that single boat."
evidence:-   old map:- Morden 1695 (Wmd) 
placename:-  Hawswater
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.
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"Hawswater"
Outline with shore shading, tinted blue. 
item:-  JandMN : 24
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evidence:-   perhaps old map:- Badeslade 1742
placename:-  
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, A Map of Westmorland North from London, scale about 10 miles to 1 inch, with descriptive text, by Thomas Badeslade, London, engraved and published by William Henry Toms, Union Court, Holborn, London, 1742.
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outline with form lines 
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2007.38.62
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evidence:-   probably 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.
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Outline with form lines; drained by Bannerdale Beck?. 
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2007.38.59
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evidence:-   old map:- Bowen and Kitchin 1760
placename:-  Haws Water
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.
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"Haws Water"
outline with form lines 
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.
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outline with form lines; lake or tarn 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland
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.
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outline with shore form lines; lake or tarn 
item:-  JandMN : 129
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evidence:-   old map:- Laurie and Whittle 1806
placename:-  Hays 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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"Hays Water"
lake 
item:-  private collection : 18.18
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evidence:-   old map:- Cooper 1808
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmoreland ie Westmorland, scale about 9 miles to 1 inch, by H Cooper, 1808, published by R Phillips, Bridge Street, Blackfriars, London, 1808.
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outline, shaded; lake 
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2007.38.53
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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:-  Hays Water
item:-  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 34:-  "Hays Water is of more extended dimensions than most of those called tarns; and is much frequented by anglers. The stream from it passes Low Hartshop, joining that from Brother Water near the foot of the latter. ..."
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Page 35:-  "... All these tarns afford good diversion for the angler; ... when quantity as well as quality is taken into account, Hays Water may perhaps be allowed the pre-eminence. ..."
evidence:-   old map:- Greenwood 1824 (Wmd) 
placename:-  Blea Water
source data:-   Maps, Map of the County of Westmorland, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, and Map of the County of Cumberland, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, etc, by C and J Greenwood, published by George Pringle jnr, 70 Queen Street, Cheapside, London, 1823 and 1824 respectively.
"Blea Water"
evidence:-   old map:- Ford 1839 map
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.
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Outline. 
item:-  JandMN : 100.1
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evidence:-   old map:- Garnett 1850s-60s H
placename:-  Hayes 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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"Hayes Wr."
outline with shore form lines, lake or tarn 
item:-  JandMN : 82.1
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evidence:-   old text:- Martineau 1855
placename:-  Hays Water
item:-  fish, Hayeswater; trout; fishing
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 40:-  "... Hays Water, the large lonely tarn above Hartsop; where the angler delights to seclude himself, because the trout delights in it too. It is a high treat to follow up the beck from the road, winding among the farms, and then entering the solitude of the pass, till the source of the stream is found in this tarn, a mile and a-half from the main road. The little lake is overhung by High Street, so that the Roman eagles, as well as the native birds of the rocks, may have cast their shadows upon its surface. Its rushy and rocky margin is as wild a place as the most adventurous angler can ever have found himself in. ..."
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Page 105:-  "... diverge to the left at Hartsop, to see Hays Water. The track passes among the farms, and beside the beck, between the mountains, and up till the source is reached,- the secluded tarn called Hays Water. This little lake is a mile and a-half from the main road, and the ascent is rather steep. It is the delight of the angler, because it is also the delight of the trout. It is overhung by High Street; so that perhaps the Roman eagles, as well as the native birds of the rocks, have cast their shadows upon its surface. ..."
evidence:-   outline view:- Black 1856 (23rd edn 1900) 
placename:-  Ayes water
source data:-   Print, lithograph, Outline Views, Windermere - Mountains as seen from the North End of Belle Isle, Windermere, and Mountains as seen from Biscay How, Bowness, by J Flintoft, Keswick, Cumberland, engraved by R Mason, Edinburgh, Lothian, about 1900.
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"... 10 Gray Crag on Ayes Water ... 26 Gray Crag on Ayes Water ..."
item:-  JandMN : 37.4
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evidence:-   outline view:- Black 1841 (3rd edn 1846) 
placename:-  Ayes water
source data:-   Print, engraving, outline view, Mountains as seen from the North End of Belle Isle, Windermere, and Mountains as seen from Bisket How, Bowness, by J Flintoft, Keswick, Cumberland, engraved by R Mason, Edinburgh, about 1844.
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"... 10 Gray Crag on Ayes Water ... 26 Gray Crag on Ayes Water ..."
item:-  JandMN : 32.3
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evidence:-   old drawing:- 
placename:-  Hays Water
source data:-   Drawing, Hays Water, Patterdale, Westmorland, by John Harper, 1840.
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View of Hayes Water taken from edge of the tarn surrounded by hills. Rocks in foreground and hills on each side. Executed in pencil with touches of white gouache on buff coloured paper. Preparatory sketch drawn on the spot by the artist. 
at bottom left:-  "Hays Water 5 Sept./40"
item:-  Tullie House Museum : 2009.89.16
Image © Tullie House Museum
evidence:-   old print:- Rose 1832-35
source data:-   Print, engraving, Hayswater from the Top of High-Street Mountain, by Thomas Allom, engraved by H Adlard, 1835.
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item:-  JandMN : 66.48
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