Old Cumbria Gazetteer

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	placename:-	Watendlath Beck
	parish	Borrowdale parish, once in Cumberland
	county:-	Cumbria
		river
	coordinates:-	NY2717
	10Km square:-	NY21
	1Km square	NY2717
		Watendlath Beck -- Borrowdale -- Cumbria / -- At Watendlath Bridge. -- 17.2.2007
		Watendlath Beck -- Borrowdale -- Cumbria / -- Ford in Watendlath. -- NY27501630 (at) -- 17.2.2007
	source:-	Otley 1818
		New Map of the District of the Lakes, in Westmorland, Cumberland, and Lancashire, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Jonathan Otley, engraved by J and G Menzies, Edinburgh, Lothian, Scotland, published by J Otley, Keswick, Cumberland now Cumbria, 1818; pblished 1818 to 1850s.
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		river
	old text:-	Gilpin 1786
		Guide book, Observations, Relative Chiefly to Picturesque Beauty, Made in the Year 1772, on Several Parts of England, Particularly the Mountains, and Lakes of Cumberland Westmoreland, by Rev William Gilpin, 1772-74; published 1786-1808.
		vol.1 p.192
		...
		These two rivers, the Lodoar, and the Derwent, furnish the chief supplies of Derwentwater. But those of the latter are much ampler. The Lodoar accordingly is lost in the lake: while the Derwent, first giving it's name to it, retains it's own to the sea.
	placename:-	Lodoar River
	date:-	1786
	period:-	18th century, late; 1780s
	old map:-	Crosthwaite 1783-94 (Der)
		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.
		river
	date:-	1783=1794
	period:-	18th century, late; 1780s; 1790s
	descriptive text:-	West 1778 (11th edn 1821)
		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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		Addendum; From Dr. Dalton's descriptive poem enumerating the Beauties of the Vale of Keswick, about 1775
		Page 197:-
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		Let other streams rejoice to roar / Down the rough rocks of dread Lowdore, / Rush raving on with bois'trous sweep, / And foaming rend the 'frighted deep, ...
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		Addendum; Mr Gray's Journal, 1769
		Page 204:-
		... we turned aside into a coppice, ascending a little in front of Lowdore water-fall: the height appeared to be about 200 feet, the quantity of water not great, though (these three days excepted) it hath rained daily for near two months before; but then the stream was nobly broken, leaping from rock to rock, and foaming with fury. ... The force of the water wearing a deep channel in the ground, hurries away to join the lake. We descended again, and passed the stream over a rude bridge. ...
	date:-	1769; 1775
	period:-	18th century, late; 1760s; 1770s
	old map:-	Smith 1751
		Map of the Black Lead Mines in Cumberland, and area, scale about 2 miles to 1 inch, by George Smith, published in the Gentleman's Magazine, 1751.
		tapering wiggly line; river
	date:-	1751
	period:-	18th century, late; 1750s
	old print:-	Rose 1832-35 (vol.2 no.4)
		Engravings - Westmorland, Cumberland, Durham and Northumberland Illustrated; from drawings by Thomas Allom, George Pickering, and H Gastineau, described by Thomas Rose, published by H Fisher, R Fisher, and P Jackson, Newgate Street, London, 1832-35.
		Print, uncoloured engraving, Watendlath, and the Stream of Lowdore, drawn by Thomas Allom, engraved by J Sands, published by Fisher, Son and Co, London, 1833.
		Vol.2 no.4 in Westmorland, Cumberland, Durham and Northumberland Illustrated, with descriptions by Thomas Rose, published by H Fisher, R Fisher, and P Jackson, Newgate, London, about 1835.
		printed at bottom left, right, centre:-
		T. Allom. / . Sands. / WATENDLATH, & THE STREAM OF LOWDORE. / FISHER, SON & CO. LONDON, 1833.
	placename:-	Stream of Lowdore
	date:-	1833
	period:-	19th century, early
	old print:-	Rose 1832-35
		Engravings - Westmorland, Cumberland, Durham and Northumberland Illustrated; from drawings by Thomas Allom, George Pickering, and H Gastineau, described by Thomas Rose, published by H Fisher, R Fisher, and P Jackson, Newgate Street, London, 1832-35.
		Watendlath and the Stream of Lowdore
		Drawn by Thomas Allom, engraved by J Sands, 1833.
	placename:-	Stream of Lowdore
	date:-	1833
	period:-	19th century, early; 1830s
		photographs
		Watendlath Beck -- Borrowdale -- Cumbria / -- 23.9.2009 -- NY272170 (about)
	hearsay	A rock feature in the beck below the hamlet is called the Devil's Punch Bowl, or just The Churn; presumably a churn pot?
		Lodore Bridge, Lodore
		Lodore Falls, Borrowdale
	Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2013

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