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  Derwent Water
viewpoint, Fawe Park
site name:-   Fawe Park
civil parish:-   Above Derwent (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   viewpoint
1Km square:-   NY2522
10Km square:-   NY22
evidence:-   descriptive text:- West 1778 (11th edn 1821) 
placename:-  station, Derwent Water, West 6
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.
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Page 105:-  "STATION VI. From Swinside continue the walk by Foe-park. This is a sweet evening walk, and had the sun shone out, Mr. Gray would have perceived his mistake in being here in the morning. 'October 5,' he writes, 'I walked through the meadows and corn-fields to the Derwent, and crossing it, went up How-hill; it looks along Bassenthwaite-water, and sees at the same time the"
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Page 106:-  "course of the river, and part of the upper lake, with a full view of Skiddaw: then I took my way through Portinscale village to the park (Foe-park) a hill so called, covered entirely with wood; it is all a mass of crumbling slate; passed round its foot, between the trees and the edge of the water, and came to a peninsula that juts out into the lake, and looks along it both ways; in front rises Wallow-crag and Castle-hill, the town, the road to Penrith, Skiddaw, and Saddle-back. After dinner walked up Penrith road,' &c."
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Addendum; Mr Gray's Journal, 1769 
Page 207:-  "..."
"Oct. 5. ... Passed round its [Fawe Park hill] foot, between trees and the edge of the water, and came to a peninsula that juts out into the lake, and looks along it"
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Page 208:-  "both ways; in front rises Wallow-crag and Castle-hill, the town, the road to Penrith, Skiddaw, and Saddleback. ..."
evidence:-   old map:- Crosthwaite 1783-94 (Der) 
placename:-  station, Derwent Water, West 6
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, An Accurate Map of the Matchless Lake of Derwent, ie Derwent Water, scale about 3 inches to 1 mile, by Peter Crosthwaite, Keswick, Cumberland, 1783, version published 1800.
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"Summit of Foe park / Ld. Wm. Gordon's / 6th. Station"
item:-  Armitt Library : 1959.191.3
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person:-   author
 : West, Thomas
place:-   Derwent Water
date:-   1778
period:-   18th century, late
period:-   1780s
item:-   guide book; Guide to the Lakes
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