Old Cumbria Gazetteer

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	placename:-	Newlands Valley
	locality:-	Newlands
	parish	Above Derwent parish, once in Cumberland
	county:-	Cumbria
		valley
	coordinates:-	NY233198
	10Km square:-	NY21
	1Km square	NY2319
		Newlands Valley (?) -- Newlands -- Above Derwent -- Cumbria / -- From Newlands Hause. -- NY19561772 (NE) -- 10.6.2005
		Newlands Valley (?) -- Newlands -- Above Derwent -- Cumbria / -- Looking south west, at sunset. -- 14.10.2005
	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 93:-
		... These mountains present nothing but endless grassy slopes, which is the characteristic of the scenery all the way till you get down to Keskadale, the first houses in Newlands. The views in this valley are chiefly of a rural description, adorned with all the beauties of luxuriant nature, and decorated with wood. The mountains are beautiful and picturesque in their forms, generally green to their summits, looking down upon comfortable houses, seated amid enclosures of emerald verdancy, irrigated and refreshed by gentle streams, now lost amidst the luxuriant growth of leafy trees, now betraying themselves by their bright sparkling. On the right, a fine branch of this vale extends to Dale Head, guarded on the south by Maiden Moor and High Crag, on the north by Goldscope and Hindsgarth.
		Page 169:-
		...
		NEWLANDS contains several scattered hamlets, and is intersected by a stream which flows to Bassenthwaite Water. The mountain called Hindscar pushes itself into the vale with much grandeur. The chapel of ease stands in the
		Page 170:-
		pleasantest part of the vale, near Little Town. (See page 92.)
	date:-	1839
	period:-	19th century, early; 1830s
	old print:-	Otley 1823 (8th edn 1849)
		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.
		Engraving, outline view of mountains, Derwent Water from Crow Park, drawn by T Binns, engraved by O Jewitt, opposite p.10 of A Descriptive Guide of the English Lakes, by Jonathan Otley, 8th edition, 1849.
	placename:-	Vale of Newlands
	date:-	1849
	period:-	19th century, early; 1840s
	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 154:-
		... Veins of lead ore occur in several places; and have been worked between Skiddaw and Saddleback, in Thornthwaite, Newlands, and Buttermere; but one in the parish of Loweswater, and one below the level of Derwent Lake, are the most productive at present in this district.
	placename:-	Newlands
	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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		NEWLANDS
	placename:-	Newlands
		valley
	old map (vignette):-	Crosthwaite 1783-94 (But/Cru/Low)
		Series of maps, An Accurate Map of the Matchless Lake of Derwent, of the Grand Lake of Windermere, of the Beautiful Lake of Ullswater, of Broadwater or Bassenthwaite Lake, of Coniston Lake, of Buttermere, Crummock and Loweswater Lakes, and Pocklington's Island, by Peter Crosthwaite, Kendal, Cumberland now Cumbria, 1783 to 1794.
		A part of Newlands & Buttermere Mountains as they appear from Crosthwaite's Museum at Keswick.
	date:-	1783=1794
	period:-	18th century, late; 1780s; 1790s
	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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		Page 130:-
		... But whoever takes a ride up Newland vale, will be agreeably surprised with some of the finest solemn pastoral scenes they have
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		Page 131:-
		yet beheld. Here present themselves an arrangement of vast mountains, entirely new, both in form and coloring of rock; large hollow craters scooped in their bosoms, once the seeming seats of raging liquid fire, though at present overflowing with the purest water, that foams down the craggy brows; other woods ornament their base, and other lakes, clear as the Derwent, lie at their feet. The softer part of these scenes are verdant hills patched with wood, spotted with rock, and pastured with herds and flocks.
		...
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		Page 132:-
		... The verdant hills on each side terminate in rude and awful mountains, that tower to the skies in a variety of grotesque forms, and on their murky furrowed sides hang many a torrent. Above Keskadale, the last houses in Newland, no traces of human industry appear. All is naked solitude and simple nature. The vale now becomes a dell, and the road a path. The lower parts are pastured with a motley herd; the middle tract is assumed by the flocks; the upper regions (to man inaccessible) are abandoned to the birds of Jove. Here untamed nature holds her reign in solemn silence, amidst the gloom and grandeur of dreary solitude [1]. The morning
		[1] And here the following exclamation of young Edwin may be properly recalled to the reader's remembrance;
		Hail, awful scenes, that calm the troubled breast, / And woo the weary to profound repose, / Can passion's wildest uproar lay to rest, / And whisper comfort to the man of woes!
		Here innocence may wander safe from foes, / And contemplation soar on seraph wings; / O solitude, the man who thee foregoes, / When lucre lures him, or ambition stings, / Shall never know the source whence real grandeur springs.
		Beattie's Minstrel, B. 2d. X.
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		Page 133:-
		sun, beaming on the blue and yellow mountains' sides, produces effects of light and shade the most charming that ever a son of Apelles imagined. ...
		...
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		Addendum; Mr Gray's Journal, 1769
		Page 203:-
		Oct. 3. [at Keswick] A heavenly day; rose at seven, and walked out under the conduct of my landlord to Borrowdale; ... Opposite [across Derwent Water] ... Newland valley, with green and smiling fields embosomed in the dark cliffs; ...
	placename:-	Newland Vale
	other name:-	Newland Valley
	date:-	1769; 1778
	period:-	18th century, late; 1760s; 1770s
	old print:-	Jenkinson 1875
		Guide book, A Practical Guide to the English Lake District, by Henry Irwin Jenkinson, published by Edward Stanford, 55 Charing Cross, London, 4th edition 1875.
		Print, lithograph, outline view, Panoramic Sketches from Skiddaw, Cumberland, by Edwin A Pettitt, London, published by Edward Stanford, 55 Charing Cross, London, 1875.
		... Newlands Vale ...
	placename:-	Newlands Vale
	date:-	1875
	period:-	19th century, late
	old print:-	Jenkinson 1875
		This glen is the upper part of the valley of the Newlands Beck.
		Guide book, A Practical Guide to the English Lake District, by Henry Irwin Jenkinson, published by Edward Stanford, 55 Charing Cross, London, 4th edition 1875.
		Print, lithograph, outline view, Panoramic Sketches from Skiddaw, Cumberland, by Edwin A Pettitt, London, published by Edward Stanford, 55 Charing Cross, London, 1875.
		... Dale Head Glen ...
	placename:-	Dale Head Glen
	date:-	1875
	period:-	19th century, late
	old print:-	Tattersall 1836
		Print, engraving, Newlands Vale, from Robinson Fall, Cumberland, drawn by George Tattersall, engraved by W F Topham, published by Sherwood and Co, Paternoster Row, London, about 1836.
		The print is captioned with mountain names and acts as an outline view.
		Tipped in opposite p.75 of The Lakes of England, by George Tattersall.
		printed at bottom:-
		NEWLANDS VALE, / from Robinson Fall.
		printed at bottom left to right:-
		Saddle End. / Caskettle. / Causey Pike. / Rawling End. / Saddleback. / Cross Fell. / Cat-bells. / Robinson.
	placename:-	Newlands Vale
	date:-	1836
	period:-	19th century, early
		photographs
		Newlands Valley (?) -- Newlands -- Above Derwent -- Cumbria / -- Sunset between trees. -- 14.10.2005
	Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008

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