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| Wallthwaite, Wallthwaite | ||
| Wallthwaite | ||
| locality:- | Wallthwaite | |
| civil parish:- | Matterdale (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | buildings | |
| locality type:- | flood | |
| coordinates:- | NY35392625 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY3526 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY32 | |
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 BPC05.jpg (taken 22.4.2008)  BPC06.jpg Date stone:- "IR 1720" (taken 22.4.2008) |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Clarke 1787 placename:- Wallthwaite item:- storm, 1749; rain; flood, 1749 |
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| source data:- | Guide book, A Survey of the Lakes of Cumberland, Westmorland,
and Lancashire, written and published by James Clarke, Penrith,
Cumberland, and in London etc, 1787; published 1787-93. goto sourcePage 57:- "This rivulet [Mosedale Beck] ... is remarkable for having been the scene of the most dreadful and destructive inundation ever remembered in this country, and of which may awful vestiges may to this hour be traced; this happened on the 22d of August 1749. ... Mr Mounsey of Wallthwaite says, that when he came down stairs in the morning, the first sight he saw was a gander belonging to one of his neighbours, and several planks and kitchen-utensils, which were floating about his lower apartments, the violence of the waters having forced open the doors on both sides of the house. ..." |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:- Wallthwaite |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "WALLTHWAITE / / / MATTERDALE / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 74547 / NY3538826249" |
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 BUC82.jpg Roller, made by Stalker Bros, Penrith. (taken 22.4.2008)  BUC83.jpg Roller, made by:- "STALKER BROS PENRITH" (taken 22.4.2008) |
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