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 Windermere lake |
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| viewpoint, Belle Isle N | ||
| site name:- | Belle Isle | |
| site name:- | Windermere lake | |
| civil parish:- | Windermere (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | viewpoint | |
| coordinates:- | SD39579710 (guess) | |
| 1Km square:- | SD3997 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD39 | |
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| evidence:- | descriptive text:- West 1778 (11th edn 1821) placename:- station, Windermere, West 3 |
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| source data:- | Guide book, A Guide to the Lakes, by Thomas West, published by
William Pennington, Kendal, Cumbria once Westmorland, and in
London, 1778 to 1821. goto source Page 62:- "..." "STATION III. From the north side of the island, the views are more sublime and vast. The lake is here seen both ways.- To the south, an expanse of water spreads on both hands, and behind you, you see a succession of promontories, with variety of shore, patched with islands, and the whole encircled by an amphitheatre of distant hills, rising in noble style. Turning to the north, the view is over a reach of lake, six miles in length, and above one in breadth, interrupted with scattered islands of different figures and dress; which, on a calm day, may be seen distinctly reflected from the limpid surface of the water that surrounds them. The environs exhibit all the grandeur of Alpine scenes. The conic summits of Langdale-pikes and Hill-bell; the broken ridge of" goto sourcePage 63:- "Wrynose, and the rocky point of Kirkstone; the overhanging cliff of Hardknot [1], uniform mass of Fairfield and Rydal-head, with the far-extended mountains of Troutbeck and Kentmere,- form as magnificent an amphitheatre, and as grand an assemblage of mountains, dells, and chasms, as ever the fancy of Poussin suggested, or the genius of Rosa invented. The island is the centre of this amphitheatre, and in the opposite point, directly over the extremity of the lake, is Rydal-hall, sweetly situated for the enjoyment of these scenes, and animating the whole in return. The immediate borders of the lake are adorned with villages and scattered cots. Calgarth-park and Rayrigg grace its banks." "[1] Langdale-pikes, Wrynose, and Hardknot, are named as being in the environs, and in the western canton of this amphitheatre, yet in reality are not seen from this island, being intercepted by a process of Furness-fells." goto sourcePage 70:- "... These [stations, Windermere 3 and 4] are the finest stations on the lake for pleasing the eye, but are much too elevated for the purpose of the artist, who will find the picturesque points on the great island well suited for his intention of morning and evening landscape, having command of fore-ground, the objects well ascertained, grouped, and disposed in the finest order of nature. A picture of the north end of the lake, taken from this island, will far exceed the fanciful production of the happiest pencil.- This may easily be verified by the use of the concave reflecting glass." |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Crosthwaite 1783-94 (Win/Ble) |
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| source data:- | Series of maps, An Accurate Map of the Matchless Lake of
Derwent, of the Grand Lake of Windermere, of the Beautiful Lake
of Ullswater, of Broadwater or Bassenthwaite Lake, of Coniston
Lake, of Buttermere, Crummock and Loweswater Lakes, and
Pocklington's Island, by Peter Crosthwaite, Kendal, Cumberland
now Cumbria, 1783 to 1794. text panel:- "..., His 3d. the North Side of do. [Bella Island] ..." |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Crosthwaite 1783-94 (Win/Ble) placename:- station, Windermere, West 3 |
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| source data:- | Series of maps, An Accurate Map of the Matchless Lake of
Derwent, of the Grand Lake of Windermere, of the Beautiful Lake
of Ullswater, of Broadwater or Bassenthwaite Lake, of Coniston
Lake, of Buttermere, Crummock and Loweswater Lakes, and
Pocklington's Island, by Peter Crosthwaite, Kendal, Cumberland
now Cumbria, 1783 to 1794. described on the map of lake Windermere "His [West's] 3d. the North Side of Do. [Bella Island]" |
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| person:- | author : West, Thomas |
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| place:- | Windermere lake | |
| date:- | 1778 |
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| period:- | 18th century, late | |
| period:- | 1780s | |
| item:- | guide book; Guide to the Lakes |
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