Old Cumbria Gazetteer

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	placename:-	Elter Water
	parish	Lakes parish, once in Westmorland
	county:-	Cumbria
		lake
	coordinates:-	NY333041
	10Km square:-	NY30
	1Km square	NY3304
		Elter Water -- Lakes -- Cumbria / -- From Loughrigg. -- 6.10.2008
		Elter Water -- Lakes -- Cumbria / -- From Lingmoor. -- 1.2.2010
	old map:-	Jenkinson 1875 map1
	date:-	1875
	period:-	19th century, late; 1870s
	source:-	Martineau 1855
		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 1855-71.
		Page 19:-
		...
		... the Brathay, which issues from Elterwater, a group of pools, rather than a lake, lying at the foot of the hills near Langdale. ...
	placename:-	Elterwater
	date:-	1855
	period:-	19th century, late; 1850s
	old map:-	Garnett 1850s-60s H
		Map of the English Lakes, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, 1850s-60s.
		Elter Water
		outline with shore form lines, lake or tarn
	placename:-	Elter Water
	date:-	1850=1869
	period:-	19th century, late; 1850s; 1860s
	old map:-	Ford 1839 map
		Map of the Lake District, published in A Description of Scenery in the Lake District, by William Ford, published by Charles Thurnham, London, 1839.
		Elter Water
		Outline with form lines.
	placename:-	Elter Water
	county:-	Westmoreland
	date:-	1839
	period:-	19th century, early; 1830s
	descriptive text:-	Ford 1839 (3rd edn 1843)
		Description of Scenery in the Lake District, by William Ford, published by Charles Thurnham, London, et al, 1839; published 1839-52.
		Page 39:-
		...
		Elter Water Tarn has low marshy shores, frequently inundated by its waters; seen in conjunction with Windermere, it, however, forms a beautiful picture. ...
		Page 177:-
		A TABLE
		OF THE LENGTH, BREADTH, &c. OF THE LAKES,
		COLLECTED FROM DIFFERENT AUTHORITIES.
	placename:-	Elter Water Tarn
	other name:-	Elter Water
	date:-	1839
	period:-	19th century, early; 1830s
	old map:-	Leigh 1830 map
		Map, A New Map of the Lakes, scale 4 miles to 1 inch, and separate detail maps of various lakes, issued with Leigh's Guide to the Lakes and Mountains of Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire, by M A Leigh, published by Leigh and Son, 421 Strand, London, 1830-40.
	date:-	1830
	period:-	19th century, early; 1830s
	descriptive text:-	Otley 1823 (5th edn 1834)
		Guidebook, Concise Description of the English Lakes, later A Description of the English Lakes, by Jonathan Otley, published by the author, Keswick, Cumberland, by J Richardson, London, and by Arthur Foster, Kirky Lonsdale, Cumbria, 1823 onwards.
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		Page 32:-
		...
		Elterwater is one of the largest of the Tarns; and having given its name to a small hamlet in Langdale, it became necessary in speaking of
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		Page 33:-
		the water itself, to add the word tarn by way of distinction. It is nearly a mile in length, and divided into three parts. By the sudden influx of water from the two Langdales, the low meadows on its margin are frequently overflowed, and rendered wet and swampy. To obviate this, great pains have lately been taken in opening its outlet; by which means the dimensions of the water have been greatly contracted; and the fishery of trout has been nearly annihilated by the introduction of that voracious fish the pike. ...
	placename:-	Elterwater Tarn
	date:-	1823
	period:-	19th century, early; 1820s
	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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	placename:-	Elter Water
		lake
	old map:-	West 1784 map
		A Map of the Lakes in Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire, now Cumbria, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, engraved by Paas, 53 Holborn, London, included in the Guide to the Lakes by Thomas West, published by William Pennington, Kendal, Westmorland, and in London, from the 3rd edition 1784, to 1821.
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	placename:-	Elter Water
		lake
	county:-	Westmorland
	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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		Rev Plumtre's Night Piece on Windermere, 1797
		Page 230:-
		...
		Say, Brathay, as I walk your side, / List'ning to your murmuring tide, / What sights, what wonders have you seen, / Passing your barrier hills between? / View'd you old Langdale's solid towers,[1] / And Elter-water's peaceful bowers; / Where the quarry's yawning scar / Hangs hideous in the midnight air! / ...
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		Page 231:-
		[1] The river Brathay is formed chiefly from two steams,- the one rising in Little Langdale, the other in Great Langdale, where it passes the Pikes and the slate quarry: these join in the small lake of Elter-water. ...
	date:-	1797
	period:-	18th century, late; 1790s
	old print:-	Rose 1832-35 (vol.2 no.1)
		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, engraving, Elterwater, Great Langdale, Westmorland, by Thomas Allom, engraved by le Petit, 1833.
		Vol.2 no.1 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. / W. Le Petit. / ELTERWATER, GREAT LANGDALE, WESTMORLAND.
	placename:-	Elterwater
	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.
	placename:-	Elterwater
	date:-	1833
	period:-	19th century, early
	old guide book:-	Tattersall 1836
		Title page of The Lakes of England, by George Tattersall, published by Sherwood and Co, Paternoster Row, London, about 1836.
	placename:-	Elterwater
	date:-	1836
	period:-	19th century, early
	old map:-
		Print, coloured aquatint, Elter Water, Westmorland, published about 1820?
		printed at bottom:-
		ELTER WATER.
	placename:-	Elter Water
	date:-	1820
	period:-	19th century, early
	Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008

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