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Glenridding valley, Patterdale
Glenridding
site name:-   Glenridding Beck
civil parish:-   Patterdale (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   valley
locality type:-   locality
coordinates:-   NY369172 (etc) 
1Km square:-   NY3617
10Km square:-   NY31


photograph
BNO85.jpg (taken 18.4.2007)  
photograph
BRA09.jpg  From Patterdale Common.
(taken 6.7.2009)  

evidence:-   old map:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd) 
placename:-  Glenridden
source data:-   Map, 4 sheets, The County of Westmoreland, scale 1 inch to 1 mile, surveyed 1768, and engraved and published by Thomas Jefferys, London, 1770.
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J5NY31NE.jpg
"Glenridden"
hill hachuring; valley 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland

evidence:-   old map:- Cary 1789 (edn 1805) 
placename:-  Glenridden
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Westmoreland, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Cary, London, 1789; edition 1805.
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CY24NY31.jpg
"Glenridden"
area 
item:-  JandMN : 129
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evidence:-   old text:- Wordsworth 1810
source data:-   Guide book, A Description of the Scenery of the Lakes, later A Guide through the District of The Lakes, by William Wordsworth, 1810-35.
image WW01pr20, button  goto source
page xx  "... at Glenridding Bridge, a fourth stream is crossed."
"The opening on the side of Ullswater Vale, down which this Stream flows, is adorned with fertile fields, cottages, and natural groves, that agreeably unite with the transverse views of the Lake; and the Stream, if followed up after the enclosures are left behind, will lead along bold water-breaks and waterfalls to a silent Tarn in the recesses of Helvellyn. ..."

evidence:-   old map:- Otley 1818
placename:-  Glenridding
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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OT02NY31.jpg
item:-  JandMN : 48.1
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evidence:-   old map:- Ford 1839 map
placename:-  Glenridding
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Map of the Lake District of Cumberland, Westmoreland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by Charles Thurnam, Carlisle, and by R Groombridge, 5 Paternoster Row, London, 3rd edn 1843.
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FD02NY31.jpg
"Glenridding"
item:-  JandMN : 100.1
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evidence:-   old map:- Garnett 1850s-60s H
placename:-  Glenridding
source data:-   Map of the English Lakes, in Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, 1850s-60s.
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GAR2NY31.jpg
"Glenridding"
river valley 
item:-  JandMN : 82.1
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evidence:-   old photograph:- Ullswater Steamers 1900s (edn 1903) 
source data:-   Photograph, bw halftone, Glenridding Valley from Blowick, Patterdale, Westmorland, published in a guide book by the Ullswater Steam Navigation Co, Penrith, Cumberland, 1903.
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UN125.jpg
printed, bottom  "GLENRIDDING VALLEY FROM BLOWICK"
item:-  JandMN : 1023.25
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evidence:-   old photograph:- Photochrom 1930s
source data:-   Photograph, black and white halftone print, Ullswater from Place Fell, Patterdale, Westmorland, published by Photochrom Co, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, 1930s?
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PCH111.jpg
printed,  "Ullswater from Place Fell. / ..."
item:-  JandMN : 1015.11
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evidence:-   outline view:- Black 1856 (23rd edn 1900) 
placename:-  Glenridding
source data:-   Print, lithograph, Outline Views, Ullswater - Mountains as seen a little on the Matterdale Road near Lyulph's Tower on Ullswater, and Mountains as seen at the Slate Quarry at Blowick on Ullswater, by J Flintoft, Keswick, Cumberland, engraved by R Mason, Edinburgh, Lothian, about 1900.
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BC08E2.jpg
"... Glenridding ..."
item:-  JandMN : 37.8
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evidence:-   outline view:- Black 1841 (3rd edn 1846) 
placename:-  Glenridding
source data:-   Print, engraving, outline view, Mountains as seen a little on the Matterdale Road near Lyulph's Tower on Ulleswater, and Mountains as seen at the Slate Quarry at Blowick on Ulleswater, by J Flintoft, Keswick, Cumberland, engraved by R Mason, Edinburgh, Lothian, about 1846.
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BC02E9.jpg
"... Glenridding ..."
item:-  JandMN : 32.15
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