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Far Easedale, Grasmere
Far Easedale
site name:-   Easedale
locality:-   Grasmere
civil parish:-   Lakes (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   valley
coordinates:-   NY31890950 (etc) 
1Km square:-   NY3109
10Km square:-   NY30


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CBU05.jpg (taken 24.9.2014)  
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CBU14.jpg  Head of Far Easedale.
(taken 24.9.2014)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 18 12) 
placename:-  Far Easedale
placename:-  Easedale, Far
source data:-   Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25 inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948.

evidence:-   old drawing:- Brockbank 1870s
placename:-  Far Easedale
source data:-   Drawing, pencil and ink wash, glacial moraines, drumlins? Far Easedale, Grasmere, Westmorland, April 1871, used by William Brockbank.
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"Moraines at The head of / far Easedale / April 1871"
"Morianes at the head of Easedale / Wm. Brockbank [ ] / [21]"
"Tarn Crag to the left divides Easedale from Far Easedale. / The nfoot road from Grasmere to Borrowdale goes along bthis / valley - [past Whitestone] / There are several sets of moraines in Far Easedale the / best being shewn in this Sketch. In the foreground is / a [flat] which looks as if it had been a Tarn & which / appears to have been formed by moraine rubbish / at its lower end."
item:-  Armitt Library : 1959.68.21
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   old print:- Reynolds 1915
placename:-  Far Easedale
source data:-   Print, colour halftone, Stepping Stones, Far Easedale, Grasmere, Westmorland, from a painting by Alfred Heaton Cooper, published by Adam and Charles Black, London, 1915.
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"A HEATON COOPER"
"STEPPING STONES, FAR EASEDALE, GRASMERE"
item:-  JandMN : 1071.5
Image © see bottom of page


photograph
Click to enlarge
CBU19.jpg  Head of Far Easedale.
(taken 24.9.2014)  
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BUF68.jpg (taken 14.3.2011)  
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BUF69.jpg (taken 14.3.2011)  

hearsay:-  
Date stone on a barn:
"S / E P / 1738"

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