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Rydal Fell, Lakes
Rydal Fell
civil parish:-   Lakes (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   valley
locality type:-   fell
coordinates:-   NY36280911 (etc) 
1Km square:-   NY3609
10Km square:-   NY30

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BRR88.jpg  Stone walls on the way up the fell,
(taken 7.10.2009)  
photograph
BRS45.jpg  The whole valley, Dalehead Close enclosed at the upper end.
(taken 7.10.2009)  
evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 19 10) 
placename:-  Rydal Fell
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.
OS County Series (Wmd 19 13) 
evidence:-   old map:- Ogilby 1675 (plate 96) 
source data:-   Road strip map, hand coloured engraving, the Road from Kendal to Cockermouth, and the Road from Egremond to Carlisle, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, by John Ogilby, London, 1675.
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In miles 14 to 17, Westmerland. 
Mountains on the right of the road. 
item:-  JandMN : 22
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evidence:-   descriptive text:- West 1778 (11th edn 1821) 
source data:-   Print, hand coloured engraving, Grasmere, Lakes, Westmorland, drawn by I Feary, engraved by Robert Havell and Son.
image WS21Fpce, button  goto source
Frontispiece 
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"I. Feary delint. / Engraved by Robt. Havell &Son. / GRASMERE."
The hills appear to be Helm Crag on the left; the road to Keswick going up to Dunmail Raise; then Seat Sandal and the Helvellyn Range which in reality would only be visible from an elevated position; Great Rigg leading up to Fairfield; and part of Rydal fell to the right. 
item:-  Armitt Library : A1221.2
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evidence:-   old map:- Garnett 1850s-60s H
placename:-  Rydale
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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"Rydale"
river valley 
item:-  JandMN : 82.1
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evidence:-   old print:- MacBride 1922
placename:-  Rydal Fells
source data:-   Print, colour, Mountain Glory - Rydal Fells, by Alfred Heaton Cooper, published by Adam and Charles Black, 4-6 Soho Square, London, 2nd edn 1928.
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Tipped in opposite p.49 in Wild Lakeland by MacKenzie MacBride. 
printed at bottom:-  "MOUNTAIN GLORY - RYDAL FELLS"
signed at lower right:-  "A. HEATON COOPER"
item:-  JandMN : 195.12
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evidence:-   old drawing:- Brockbank 1870s
source data:-   Drawing, pencil and ink wash, glacial erratic, Rydal Fell, Rydal, Westmorland, 24 April 1872, used by William Brockbank.
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"In Rydal valley Apl 24. 1872"
"Perched Block / Rydal / Wm. Brockbank [FGS ] / 24"
item:-  Armitt Library : 1959.68.24
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evidence:-   old drawing:- Brockbank 1870s
placename:-  Rydal Fell
source data:-   Drawing, ink, mammilated rock, roche moutonnee, near Mirror Pool, Rydal Head, Rydal, Westmorland, by WH, 1872, used by William Brockbank.
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"Part of the mammilated rocks near Mirror pool / Rydal Head"
"WH. / 1872."
"Glaciated Rock: Rydal Head / W Brock[ ] / 23"
"In Rydale, which descends from Fairfield to the Rydal Valley, are some of the finest examples of / Ice worn or mammilated Rocks, to be seen in / the Lake district. They lie in the [mid] valley & / have evidently been ground away by the glacier / which filled the valley & formed its huge [ ] / [ ] There are no good examples of / Moraines in Rydale, the valley was apparently / too steep for them but the perched rocks are / frequent & very fine"
item:-  Armitt Library : 1959.68.23
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evidence:-   old drawing:- Brockbank 1870s
source data:-   Drawing, ink, mammilated rocks, roche moutonnee, and a glacial erratic, Rydal Fell, Rydal, Westmorland, by WH, 1872, used by William Brockbank.
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"Mammilated rocks / Rydal Head. / 1872."
"W.H."
"Glaciated Rocks. Rydal Head. Wm. Brockbank F.[G ] / 10"
"Mammilated Rocks / Rydal. Fairfiled in the distance / see [ th ] Sketch"
item:-  Armitt Library : 1959.68.10
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evidence:-   old drawing:- Brockbank 1870s
placename:-  Rydal Fell
source data:-   Drawing, pencil and ink wash, glacial erratics in Rydal Fell, Rydal, Westmorland, 10 March 1871, used by William Brockbank.
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PR1913.jpg
"Rydal / High Pike / Mar. 10. 1871"
"Rydal. Wm. Brocklebank [F.G ] / 8"
"Morraines & Perched Blocks in / Rydale, under High Pike"
item:-  Armitt Library : 1959.68.8
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evidence:-   old drawing:- 
source data:-   Drawing, Above Rydal Falls, Westmorland, by John Harper, 1840.
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View from above Rydal Falls near Rydal, Grasmere. View from hillside looking up the valley to falls with tarn and hills in the background. Framed by 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. 
(Looking up Rydal Fell to see a tarn is difficult.) 
at bottom left:-  "above Rydal Falls 1 Sep./40"
item:-  Tullie House Museum : 2009.89.15
Image © Tullie House Museum
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