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| Bassenthwaite Lake: regatta 1780 | ||
| site name:- | Bassenthwaite Lake | |
| civil parish:- | Keswick (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | regatta | |
| locality type:- | recreation | |
| 1Km square:- | NY2032 (etc) | |
| 10Km square:- | NY23 | |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Clarke 1787 item:- horse race; spaniel; dog |
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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 94:- "..." "[Ouse Bridge] ... Here also was held the first regatta in 1780, at which their was one species of entertainment not since made use of at those public diversions, viz. a prize to swim horses for: they were taken in a boat as near as possible to the middle of the Lake, and at as near equal distances from the shore on any side as could possibly be guessed; they were then turned out, and the horse which landed first on any shore was the winner; no horse or mare was allowed to start that had been kept within four miles of the place. Three started, and it was won by a horse belonging to Thomas Storey, Esq.; Earl of Surrey's was second; William Dacre's, Esq; of Mell, the third. A duck was also let go upon the Lake, and a number of water spaniels set in chace of her, which afforded excellent diversion." |
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