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Low Yewdale, Coniston
Low Yewdale
locality:-   Yewdale
civil parish:-   Coniston (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   SD31179911
1Km square:-   SD3199
10Km square:-   SD39

evidence:-   descriptive text:- Otley 1823 (5th edn 1834) 
item:-  geology
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.
image OT01P158, button  goto source
Page 158:-  "The THIRD division - forming only inferior elevations - commences with a bed of dark-blue or blackish transition limestone, containing here and there a few shells and madrepores, and alternating with a slaty rock of the same colour; the different layers of each being in some places several feet, in others only a few inches in thickness. This limestone crosses the river Duddon near Broughton; passing Broughton Mills it runs in a north-east direction through Torver, by the foot of the Old Man mountain, and appears near Low Yewdale and Yew Tree. Here it makes a considerable slip to the eastward, after which it ranges past the Tarns upon the hills above Borwick Ground; and stretching through Skelwith, it crosses the head of Windermere near Low Wood Inn. Then passing above Dovenest and Skelgill, it traverses the vales of Troutbeck, Kentmere, and Long Sleddale;"

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Low Yewdale Farm
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"LOW YEWDALE FARMHOUSE AND COTTAGE / / A 593 / CONISTON / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 76789 / SD3117699119"

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"BARN TO SOUTH WEST OF LOW YEWDALE FARMHOUSE / / A 593 / CONISTON / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 76791 / SD3116199095"

hearsay:-  
Referred to as Dixons Farm by Arthur Ransome.

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