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placename:-
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Priest Pot
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locality:-
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Hawkshead
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parish
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Claife parish, once in
Lancashire
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county:-
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Cumbria
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tarn
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coordinates:-
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SD357978
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10Km square:-
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SD39
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1Km square |
SD3597 |
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source:- |
Martineau 1855
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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. |
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Page 29:-
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... A round pond at the northern end of the lake [Esthwaite
Water], connected with it by a narrow creek, ... The name of
the pond is Priest's Pot: a fact which be explain by a
tradition that a priest was drowned there; and others by a
supposition of its
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Page 30:-
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holding about as much as a thirsty priest would like to
drink, if the liquor were sufficiently good. ...
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placename:-
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Priest's Pot
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event:-
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accident; drowning
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date:-
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1855
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period:-
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19th century, late; 1850s
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descriptive text:- |
Otley 1823 (5th edn 1834)
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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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goto source.
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Page 13:-
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On a pond called Priest Pot, near the head of this lake
[Esthwaite Water], there is a Floating Island 24 yards in
length, and 5 or 6 in breadth; ...
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date:-
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1823
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period:-
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19th century, early; 1820s
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old print:- |
Robertson 1911
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Wordsworthshire, by Eric Robertson, Windermere,
Westmorland, illustrated by Arthur Tucker, published by
Chatto and Windus, London, 1911. |
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Print, lithograph? Hawkshead, from a watercolour by
Arthur Tucker, published by Chatto and Windus, London,
1911.
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Tipped in opposite p.64 of Wordsworthshire by Eric
Robertson.
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printed at bottom:-
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HAWKSHEAD / ('Priest's Pot' Pool in foreground; Weatherlam
covered with snow)
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signed at painting lower left:-
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Arthur Tucker
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placename:-
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Priest's Pot Pool
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date:-
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1911
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period:-
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1910s
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Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008
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