Kirk Stone, Patterdale | ||
Kirk Stone | ||
locality:- | Kirkstone Pass | |
civil parish:- | Patterdale (formerly Westmorland) | |
county:- | Cumbria | |
locality type:- | stone | |
coordinates:- | NY40200863 (?) | |
1Km square:- | NY4008 | |
10Km square:- | NY40 | |
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BLK62.jpg (taken 5.12.2005) BLK63.jpg (taken 5.12.2005) |
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We're pretty sure we've located the right stone. |
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evidence:- | map:- |
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source data:- | OS 6 inch maps, fairly modernMarked by small circle, east side of road wall. |
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evidence:- | perhaps? descriptive text:- West 1778 (11th edn 1821) placename:- Highcross |
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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 source Page 162:- "... From the top of Kirkston to Ambleside the descent is quick. Some remarkable stones near the gorge of the pass are called Highcross. ..." |
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evidence:- | old text:- Green 1810 placename:- Kirkstone |
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source data:- | Set of prints, soft ground etchings, Sixty Studies from Nature,
by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, drawn 1808-10,
published 1810. goto source page 111:- "... Kirkstone. This place takes its name from a sort of cubical stone on the left, called Kirkstone; from which there is an interesting little peep at the lake of Brother Water, which, at intervals, displays itself during the descent into the valley." |
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evidence:- | old text:- Green 1814 placename:- Kirkstone |
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source data:- | Set of prints, soft ground etchings, Sixty Small Prints, with
text, A Description of a Series of Sixty Small Prints, by
William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1814. goto source page 27:- "... on the summit of the hill [Kirkstone]; near which, on the left, is a cubical sort of stone, called Kirkstone, which gives name to the pass." |
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evidence:- | old drawing:- Aspland 1840s-60s |
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source data:- | Drawing, pencil, the Kirk Stone, Kirkstone Pass, Patterdale, Westmorland, by Theophilus
Lindsey Aspland, 1852. click to enlarge AS0332.jpg item:- Armitt Library : 1958.390.32 Image © see bottom of page |
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evidence:- | old text:- Martineau 1855 |
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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. goto source Page 37:- "... The stranger must not omit to observe near the head of the pass, the fallen rock, ridged like a roof, whose form (like that of a miniature church) has given its name to its precincts. ..." |
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evidence:- | old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s |
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source data:- | Photograph, black and white, the Kirk Stone, Kirkstone Pass, Patterdale, Westmorland,
by Herbert Bell, photographer, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s. click to enlarge HB0623.jpg internegative at lower right:- "H. Bell" item:- Armitt Library : ALPS284 Image © see bottom of page |
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evidence:- | old print:- Goodwin 1887 (edn 1890) |
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source data:- | Print, etching? Brothers Water, from the Kirkstone Pass, Patterdale, Westmorland,
by Harry Goodwin, published by Swan Sonnenschein and Co, Paternoster Square, London,
1890. click to enlarge PR1600.jpg Tipped in opposite p.154 of Through the Wordsworth Country, by William Knight. item:- JandMN : 382.30 Image © see bottom of page |
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BLK64.jpg (taken 5.12.2005) |
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hearsay:- |
William Wordsworth, Ode to the Pass of Kirkstone:- |
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"This block - and yon, whose church-like frame, Gives to this savage Pass its name" |
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