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placename:- Malham
county:- North Yorkshire
building/s
coordinates:- SD9062
10Km square:- SD96

1Km square SD9062

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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Addendum; Mr Gray's Journal, 1769
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... came to Malham (pronounced Maum) a village in the bosom of the mountains, seated in a wild and dreary valley. ...
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... At the alehouse where I dined in Malham, Vivares, the landscape painter, had lodged for a week or more; Smith and Bellers and also been there, and two prints of Gordale have been engraved by them.
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Tour to the Caves in the West Riding of Yorkshire, late 18th century
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From Settle we proceeded eastward, over the moors and mountains, about half a dozen miles, to Malham, or Maum, in order to see some other natural curiosities of the precipice and cataract kind. ...

placename:- Malham
other name:- Maum
person:- artist : Vivares, Francois
person:- artist : Bellers, William
person:- artist : Smith, James Warwick
date:- 1760; 1769
period:- 18th century, late; 1760s

Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008

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