Old Cumbria Gazetteer - Nether Wasdale

Nether Wasdale

locality:-

Wasdale

civil parish:-

Nether Wasdale (formerly Cumberland)

county:-

Cumbria

locality type:-

locality

locality type:-

buildings

coordinates:-

NY12370403 (etc)

1Km square:-

NY1204

10Km square:-

NY10

CDW56.jpg (taken 6.9.2015)
photograph

CDW55.jpg (taken 6.9.2015)

evidence:-

old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 78 8)
placename:- Strands

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:- Saxton 1579
placename:- Nether Wasdale

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.

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Building, symbol for a hamlet, which may or may not have a nucleus. "Nether Wasdale"
item:- private collection : 2
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evidence:-

old map:- Mercator 1595 (edn?)
placename:- Nether Wasdale

source data:-

Map, hand coloured engraving, Northumbria, Cumberlandia, et Dunelmensis Episcopatus, ie Northumberland, Cumberland and Durham etc, scale about 6.5 miles to 1 inch, by Gerard Mercator, Duisberg, Germany, about 1595.

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"Nether Wasdale"
circle
item:- JandMN : 169
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evidence:-

old map:- Keer 1605
placename:- Nother Wasdale

source data:-

Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmorland and Cumberland, scale about 16 miles to 1 inch, probably by Pieter van den Keere, or Peter Keer, about 1605 edition perhaps 1676.

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KER8.jpg
"Nother Wasdale"
dot, circle and tower; village
item:- Dove Cottage : 2007.38.110
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evidence:-

old map:- Speed 1611 (Cmd)
placename:- Nether Wasdale

source data:-

Map, hand coloured engraving, Cumberland and the Ancient Citie Carlile Described, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by John Speed, 1610, published by J Sudbury and George Humble, Popes Head Alley, London, 1611-12.

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"Nether Wasdale"
circle, tower
item:- private collection : 16
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evidence:-

old map:- Jenner 1643
placename:- Net Wasdale

source data:-

Tables of distances with a maps, Westmerland, scale about 16 miles to 1 inch, and Cumberland, scale about 21 miles to 1 inch, published by Thomas Jenner, London, 1643; published 1643-80.

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"Net Wasdale"
circle

evidence:-

old map:- Jansson 1646
placename:- Nether Wasdale

source data:-

Map, hand coloured engraving, Cumbria and Westmoria, ie Cumberland and Westmorland, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Jansson, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1646.

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"Nether Wasdale"
Buildings and tower.
item:- JandMN : 88
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evidence:-

old map:- Morden 1695 (Cmd)
placename:- Nether Warsdale

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.

MD12NY10.jpg
"Nether Warsdale"
Circle.
item:- JandMN : 90
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evidence:-

old map:- Badeslade 1742
placename:- Nether Warsdale

source data:-

Map, uncoloured engraving, A Map of Cumberland North from London, scale about 11 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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BD10.jpg
"N. Warsdale"
circle, italic lowercase text; village, hamlet or locality
item:- JandMN : 115
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evidence:-

old map:- Bowen and Kitchin 1760
placename:- Nether Warsdale

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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"Nether Warsdale"
circle, tower
item:- Armitt Library : 2008.14.10
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evidence:-

old map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd)
placename:- Wastdale

source data:-

Map, hand coloured engraving, 3x2 sheets, The County of Cumberland, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, by Thomas Donald, engraved and published by Joseph Hodskinson, 29 Arundel Street, Strand, London, 1774.

D4NY10SW.jpg
"Wastdale"
blocks, and usually a church, labelled in upright lowercase; a village
item:- Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library

evidence:-

old map:- Cooke 1802
placename:- Wastedale

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.

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GRA1Lk.jpg
"Wastedale"
blocks, italic lowercase text, village, hamlet, locality
item:- Hampshire Museums : FA2000.62.5
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evidence:-

old map:- Laurie and Whittle 1806
placename:- Wastdale

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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Lw18.jpg
"Wastdale"
village or other place
item:- private collection : 18.18
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evidence:-

old text:- Green 1810
placename:- Nather Wastdale
placename:- Wastdale, Nether

source data:-

Set of prints, soft ground etchings, Sixty Studies from Nature, by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, drawn 1808-10, published 1810.

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page 86:- "..."
"The public house in Nether Wastdale has one spare bed, and its neighbours can furnish more if wanted, an"
page 87:- "accommodation very desirable to such as laying aside all fastidious feeling, will, for their alamodes, their fricandos, and their daubs, content themselves with hung beef, with bacon and eggs, and with old Jamaica rum; for of European liquors (unless it be bad ale) the house only affords that wholesomer beverage, milk and water."

evidence:-

old map:- Otley 1818
placename:- Strands

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.

OT02NY10.jpg
item:- JandMN : 48.1
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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.

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Page 30:- "... At Nether Wasdale, about a mile and a half from the foot of the lake, there are two public houses where travellers may have refreshment for themselves and horses: there is no other between this and Rosthwaite in Borrowdale, a distance of fourteen miles, one third of which is very difficult mountain road."

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Page 149:- "A variety of granite with reddish felspar, and which from a deficiency of mica, has sometimes been"

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Page 151:- "called sienite, .... At Nether-wasdale it becomes a finer grained sienite, ... It contains veins of red hematite and micaceous iron ore."

evidence:-

old map:- Ford 1839 map
placename:- Wastdale
placename:- Strands

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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"Strands / Wastdale"
item:- JandMN : 100.1
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evidence:-

old map:- Ford 1839 map
placename:- Wastdale
placename:- Strands

source data:-

evidence:-

old map:- Garnett 1850s-60s H
placename:- Strands

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.

Martineau Directory 1855

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.

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Page 114:- "... then the road meets others on the green. The one to the right leads to the lake. Sweeping round to the left, and passing the church,- so small and domestic-looking as to appear like a house,- the road reaches the two little inns. They are humble but clean; and horses can be had, and boats for the lake."

evidence:-

old map:- Post Office 1850s-1900s
placename:- Wast Dale

source data:-

Post road maps, General Post Office Circulation Map for England and Wales, for the General Post Office, London, 1850s-1900s.