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Yewdale, Coniston
Yewdale
civil parish:-   Coniston (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   valley
coordinates:-   NY308004 (etc) 
1Km square:-   NY3000
10Km square:-   NY30
evidence:-   old print:- Green 1810 (plate 3) 
placename:-  Yewdale
source data:-   Print, soft ground etching, Yewdale near Coniston, Lancashire, by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1810.
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Plate 3 in Sixty Studies from Nature, 1810. 
printed at bottom:-  "YEWDALE NEAR CONISTON. / Drawn and Engraved by William Green, and Published at Ambleside, June 24, 1810."
watermark:-  "J WHATMAN / 1813"
item:-  Armitt Library : A6641.3
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evidence:-   old map:- Otley 1818
placename:-  Yewdale
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, The District of the Lakes, Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Jonathan Otley, 1818, engraved by J and G Menzies, Edinburgh, Scotland, published by Jonathan Otley, Keswick, Cumberland, et al, 1833.
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item:-  JandMN : 48.1
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evidence:-   outline view:- Otley 1823 (8th edn 1849) 
placename:-  Yewdale
source data:-   Engraving, outline view of mountains, Coniston Water from near Bank Ground, drawn by T Binns, engraved by O Jewitt, opposite p.8 of A Descriptive Guide of the English Lakes, by Jonathan Otley, 8th edition, 1849.
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item:-  Armitt Library : A1180.6
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evidence:-   descriptive text:- Otley 1823 (5th edn 1834) 
source data:-   Guide book, A Concise Description of the English Lakes, the mountains in their vicinity, and the roads by which they may be visited, with remarks on the mineralogy and geology of the district, by Jonathan Otley, published by the author, Keswick, Cumberland now Cumbria, by J Richardson, London, and by Arthur Foster, Kirkby Lonsdale, Cumbria, 1823; published 1823-49, latterly as the Descriptive Guide to the English Lakes.
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Page 96:-  "At Coniston, besides the views of the lake from its banks, and from its bosom in a boat, the lovers of landscape beauties may find some pretty walks in"
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Page 97:-  "the vales of Yewdale and Tilberthwaite. ..."
evidence:-   descriptive text:- Ford 1839 (3rd edn 1843) 
placename:-  Yewdale
item:-  yew; tree
source data:-   Guide book, A Description of Scenery in the Lake District, by Rev William Ford, published by Charles Thurnam, Carlisle, by W Edwards, 12 Ave Maria Lane, Charles Tilt, Fleet Street, William Smith, 113 Fleet Street, London, by Currie and Bowman, Newcastle, by Bancks and Co, Manchester, by Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh, and by Sinclair, Dumfries, 1839.
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Page 11:-  "..."
"YEWDALE."
"From the inn at Coniston, a leisurely traveller might have much pleasure in looking into Yewdale, with its venerable tree, which is tall and beautiful, though not umbrageous, like those of Patterdale"
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Page 12:-  "and Lorton - and Tilberthwaite, with its hundred woody knolls - returning to the inn from the head of Yewdale, by a mountain tract, having the farm-house of Tarn Hows on the right. On this road, Coniston Water is resplendently exhibited in its whole length, with all its pretty bays and mazy windings."
evidence:-   old drawing:- Aspland 1840s-60s
placename:-  Yewdale
source data:-   Drawing, pencil, Yewdale, Coniston, Cumberland, by Theophilus Lindsey Aspland, 1869.
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"Looking into Yewdale / & Tilberthwaite from the Farm Aug 1869"
page number  "41"
item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.61.49
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evidence:-   old drawing:- Aspland 1840s-60s
source data:-   Drawing, pencil, near Yewdale, Coniston, Cumberland, by Theophilus Lindsey Aspland, 1849.
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"nr Yewdale."
item:-  Armitt Library : 1958.487.13
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evidence:-   old drawing:- Aspland 1840s-60s
placename:-  Yewdale
source data:-   Drawing, pencil, Yewdale, Coniston, Cumberland, by Theophilus Lindsey Aspland, 1849.
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"Yewdale"
item:-  Armitt Library : 1958.487.74
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evidence:-   old text:- Martineau 1855
item:-  heather
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.
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Page 27:-  "... Yewdale, with its grey rocks, cushioned with heather up to their summits, stretches away northwards from the head of the lake, into a gorge where the mountains overlap. ..."
evidence:-   old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s
source data:-   Photograph, black and white, Yewdale Fells and Yewdale, Coniston, Lancashire, by Herbert Bell, photographer, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s.
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item:-  Armitt Library : ALPS557
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evidence:-   old print:- Heaton Cooper 1905 (edn 1908) 
placename:-  Yewdale
source data:-   Print, colour halftone, The Shepherd, Yewdale, Coniston, Lancashire, from a watercolour painting by Alfred Heaton Cooper, published by Adam and Charles Black, London, 2nd edn 1908.
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Opposite p.72 of The English Lakes, painted by Alfred Heaton Cooper, described by William T Palmer. 
printed at tissue opposite the print:-  "THE SHEPHERD, YEWDALE, CONISTON"
item:-  JandMN : 468.25
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evidence:-   old print:- Goodwin 1887 (edn 1890) 
placename:-  Yewdale
source data:-   Print, etching? Yewdale, Coniston, Lancashire, by Harry Goodwin, published by Swan Sonnenschein and Co, Paternoster Square, London, 1890.
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Tipped in opposite p.48 of Through the Wordsworth Country, by William Knight. 
printed at lower left:-  "Yewdale"
item:-  JandMN : 382.12
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evidence:-   outline view:- Black 1856 (23rd edn 1900) 
placename:-  Yewdale
source data:-   Print, lithograph, Outline Views, Grasmere and Coniston - Mountains as seen from Redbank, Grasmere, and Mountains as seen a little beyond Tent Lodge on the Road from Coniston to Ulverstone, by J Flintoft, Keswick, Cumberland, engraved by R Mason, Edinburgh, Lothian, about 1900.
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"... Yewdale &Tilberthwaite ..."
item:-  JandMN : 37.12
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evidence:-   outline view:- Black 1841 (3rd edn 1846) 
placename:-  Yewdale
source data:-   Print, engraving, outline view, Mountains as seen from Red Bank, Grasmere, and Mountains as seen a little beyond Tent-Lodge on the Road from Coniston to Ulverston, by J Flintoft, Keswick, Cumberland, engraved by R Mason, Edinburgh, Lothian, about 1846.
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"... Yewdale &Tilberthwaite ..."
item:-  JandMN : 32.5
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evidence:-   old drawing:- 
placename:-  Yewdale
source data:-   Drawing, In Yewdale, near Coniston, Lancashire, by John Harper, 1840.
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View of Yewdale near Coniston. Rocky outrcop covered with trees in the foreground. Coniston fells in the background. Executed in pencil with touches of white gouache on buff coloured paper. Preparatory sketch drawn on the spot by the artist. 
at bottom right:-  "In Yewdale. Nr Coniston. 28 Aug/40"
item:-  Tullie House Museum : 2009.89.18
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BZQ77.jpg  The moss at the top of Tilberthwaite Gill..
(taken 19.11.2013)  
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