Old Cumbria Gazetteer

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	placename:-	High Fall
	site name:-	Rydal Beck
	site name:-	Rydal Hall
	locality:-	Rydal
	parish	Lakes parish, once in Westmorland
	county:-	Cumbria
		waterfall
	coordinates:-	NY36560678
	10Km square:-	NY30
	1Km square	NY3606
		High Fall -- Rydal Beck -- Rydal Hall -- Rydal -- Lakes -- Cumbria / -- 31.10.2008 -- courtesy of Rydal Hall
	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 54:-
		...
		The guide to the Rydal Falls will by this time have presented herself, and the tourist must visit them. They are within the park, and cannot be seen without
		Page 55:-
		a guide: but some one is always to be found at one of the two guides' cottages on the ascent of the hill. The upper fall is the finest, in the eyes of those who prefer the most natural accessaries of a cascade: ...
	person:-	mountain guide
	date:-	1855
	period:-	19th century, late; 1850s
	source:-	Martineau 1855 -- probably relevant
		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 180:-
		WATERFALLS.
		No. : Names and Situations of Falls. : Counties : Feet in Height.
		4 : Rydal Fall, near Ambleside : Westmorland : 70
	placename:-	Rydal Fall
	date:-	1855
	period:-	19th century, late; 1850s
	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 40:-
		...
		... The Rydal Waterfalls are shown by a domestic [of Rydal Hall]; the stranger is ... then conducted amidst groves of oaks, through whose opening glades peeps are obtained of the huge mountains above, and the sweet vale below, to the Upper Fall, which is fine in all seasons; the stream is much contracted, and precipitated down a perpendicular wall of rock into a dark basin. From the bed of the river at the top of the lower cascade, this Fall is a scene of considerable interest.
	placename:-	Upper Fall
	date:-	1839
	period:-	19th century, early; 1830s
	descriptive text:-	Ford 1839 (3rd edn 1843) -- probably relevant
		Description of Scenery in the Lake District, by William Ford, published by Charles Thurnham, London, et al, 1839; published 1839-52.
		Page 179:-
		WATERFALLS.
	placename:-	Rydal Fall
	date:-	1839
	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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		RYDAL WATERFALLS.- The upper is a considerable cascade, pouring out its water, first in a contracted stream, down a perpendicular rock; and then, in a broader sheet, dashing into a deep stony channel. The lower, being near the house, forms a beautiful garden scene.
	placename:-	Rydal Waterfalls
	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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		Marked by three chevrons across the stream.
		waterfall
	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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		... At Rydal-hall are two cascades worthy of notice. One is a little above the house, to which Sir Michael le Fleming made a convenient path, that brings you upon it all at once. This is a mighty torrent tumbling headlong, and uninterruptedly, from an immense height of rock, into the rocky bason below, shaking the mountain under you with its fall, and the air above with the rebound. It is a surprising scene. This gentleman's example, in opening a road to the fall, recommends itself strongly to others of this country, which abounds with so many noble objects of curiosity, and which all travellers of the least taste would visit with pleasure, could they do it with convenience and safety.
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		Addendum; Mr Gray's Journal, 1769
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		By not staying a little at Ambleside, Mr. Gray lost the sight of two magnificent cascades: [Stockghyll Force and] the other down Rydal-crag, where Sir Michael le Fleming is now making a pathway to the top of it. These, when I saw them, were in full torrent; whereas Lowdore water-fall, which I visited in the evening of the very same day, was almost without a stream. ...
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		Rev Plumtre's Night Piece on Windermere, 1797
		Page 232:-
		... / The falls down Rydal's mountains tost; / The high cascade[1], with dashing spray, / O'er rugged rocks maintains its way, / With stubbed trees, by storms despoil'd - / A scene most picturesquely wild, / ...
		[1] Besides the two cascades in the grounds of Sir Michael le Fleming, there is another higher up, which, when there is plenty of water, is well worth the notice of the picturesque traveller.
	person:-	: Fleming, Michael le, Sir
	date:-	1769; 1778; 1797
	period:-	18th century, late; 1760s; 1770s; 1790s
	old print:-	Garnett 1850s-60s F
		Set of prints, engravings, Views of the English Lakes or Views in the English Lake District, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, 1850s-60s?
		Print, uncoloured engraving, Upper Fall at Rydal, Westmorland, engraved by William Banks, Edinburgh, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, 1850s-60s?
		Included in Views of the English Lakes.
		printed at bottom:-
		Engd. by W. Banks Edinr. / UPPER FALL AT RYDAL
	placename:-	Upper Fall
	date:-	1850=1869
	period:-	19th century, late
	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:-	Upper Fall at Rydal
	date:-	1833
	period:-	19th century, early
	old print:-	Smith and Emes 1794-95 (plate 7)
		16 aquatints, drawn by John W Smith or John Emes, engraved by S Alken, published by W Clarke, New Bond Street, London, 1794-95.
		Print, uncoloured aquatint, Upper Cascade Rydal, drawn by John Emes from a sketch by Laporte, engraved by S Alken, published by W Clarke, New Bond Street, London, 1795.
		Plate 7 in Views of the Lakes.
		printed at bottom:-
		... Upper Cascade Rydal. ...
	placename:-	Upper Cascade
	date:-	1790=1795
	period:-	18th century, late
	Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008

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