Skelwith Fold, Skelwith Bridge | ||
Skelwith Fold | ||
locality:- | Skelwith Bridge | |
civil parish:- | Skelwith (formerly Lancashire) | |
county:- | Cumbria | |
locality type:- | buildings | |
coordinates:- | NY35060284 (etc) | |
1Km square:- | NY3502 | |
10Km square:- | NY30 | |
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evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Lan 2 6) placename:- Skelwith Fold |
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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. |
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evidence:- | old print:- Green 1822 (plate 9) placename:- Skelwith Fold item:- forestair |
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source data:- | Print, uncoloured soft ground etching, Skelwith Fold, Skelwith, Lancashire, by William
Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1822. click to enlarge GN0809.jpg Plate 9 in Forty Etchings from Nature. printed at bottom:- "SKELWITH FOLD. / Etched from Nature by William Green, &Published at Ambleside, Feby. 1, 1822." item:- Armitt Library : A6644.9 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 47:- "... Skelwith Fold. There the stranger must alight again, and go through a field gate to the right, to a rocky point, where he commands the finest view of the valley and its environs. ..." |
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