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Nab Cottage, Lakes
Nab Cottage
locality:-   Rydal
civil parish:-   Lakes (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   NY35490638
1Km square:-   NY3506
10Km square:-   NY30

photograph
BRR56.jpg (taken 7.10.2009)  
photograph
BRR57.jpg  Date stone:-
"I / 3 P / A / 1702" for John and Ann Park
(taken 7.10.2009)  
Or Isaac and Ann Parkinson?
evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 26 1) 
placename:-  Nab Cottage
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.
evidence:-   old map:- Clarke 1787 map (Ambleside to Keswick) 
placename:-  Nab
source data:-   Map, A Map of the Roads Lakes etc between Keswick and Ambleside, scale about 2.5 ins to 1 mile, by James Clarke, engraved by S J Neele, 352 Strand, published by James Clarke, Penrith, Cumberland and in London etc, 1787.
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"Nab"
item:-  private collection : 10.9
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evidence:-   old print:- Nelson 1853 (edn 1880s) 
placename:-  Nab Cottage
source data:-   Print, uncoloured, Nab Cottage, Rydal, Westmorland, published by Thomas Nelson and Sons, London, 1853 edn 1880s?
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On p.38 of Views of the English Lakes, and Tourists Guide to the English Lakes. 
printed at bottom:-  "NAB COTTAGE."
item:-  JandMN : 474.12
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evidence:-   old text:- Martineau 1855
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.
image MNU1P053, button  goto source
Page 53:-  "... Nab Cottage, the humble white house by the road side, and on the margin of the lake, is the place where Hartley Coleridge lived and died. ..."
evidence:-   old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s
source data:-   Photograph, black and white, Nab Cottage, Rydal, Westmorland, by Herbert Bell, photographer, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s.
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stamped on reverse:-  "HERBERT BELL / Photographer / AMBLESIDE"
item:-  Armitt Library : ALPS354
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evidence:-   old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s
source data:-   Photograph, black and white, Nab Cottage, Rydal, Westmorland, by Herbert Bell, photographer, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s.
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internegative at lower left:-  "H. Bell"
stamped on reverse:-  "HERBERT BELL / Photographer / AMBLESIDE"
item:-  Armitt Library : ALPS356
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evidence:-   old text:- Burrow 1920s
placename:-  
source data:-   Road book, strip maps with parts in Westmorland, Cumberland etc, irregular scales about 1.5 miles to 1 inch, by E J Burrow and Co, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, 1920s.
"... The road passes close beside the tiny but very charming lake of Rydal Water, past Nab Cottage, the home of the poet Coleridge ..."
evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Nab, The
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"THE NAB / / / LAKES / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II[star] / 452642 / NY3549206399"
evidence:-   old print:- 
placename:-  Nab Cottage
source data:-   Print, uncoloured engraving, The Nab Cottage, Rydal, Westmorland, drawn by W H J Bool, engraved by Whymper, published 1920s-30s?
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On page 225 of Picturesque Europe, The Lake Country. Rydal Water behind. 
printed at lower left, right:-  "WHJBool / WHYMPER Sc"
printed at bottom:-  "THE NAB COTTAGE."
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2008.107.354
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evidence:-   old print:- Pearson 1900s
placename:-  Nab Cottage
source data:-   Print, halftone photograph, Nab Cottage, Rydal, Westmorland, published by C Arthur Pearson, Henrietta Street, London, 1900s.
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On p.144 of Pearson's Gossipy Guide to the English Lakes and Neighbouring Districts. 
printed at bottom:-  "NAB COTTAGE, RYDAL (p.132). / (The death-place of Hartley Coleridge, in 1849)."
item:-  Armitt Library : A1188.61
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photograph
BRR58.jpg  Chimney.
(taken 7.10.2009)  
photograph
BPR99.jpg (taken 7.10.2008)  
personal
person:-    : Coleridge, Hartley
place:-   home
date:-   1849
personal
person:-   author; journalist
 : de Quincey, Thomas
person:-    : Simpson, Margaret
place:-   home
item:-   newspaper; Westmorland Gazetter
Thomas de Quincey, writer, was also a journalist and then editor of the Westmorland Gazetter. When living at Dove Cottage he visited here, and fell in love with the farmer's daughter, Margaret Simpson. They had a child in November 1816, and married at Grasmere church, February 1817. In 1829 de Quincey became the owner of Nab Cottage; there was a complicated mortgage and he sold the farm in 1833.
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