Old Cumbria Gazetteer

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	placename:-	Seathwaite
	other name:-	Seathet
	parish	Borrowdale parish, once in Cumberland
	county:-	Cumbria
		building/s
	coordinates:-	NY235122
	10Km square:-	NY21
	1Km square	NY2312
		Seathwaite -- Borrowdale -- Cumbria / -- 26.2.2007
		Seathwaite -- Borrowdale -- Cumbria / -- 24.4.2006
	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 116:-
		... A party of tourists, among whom were two sisters, were on the heights, intending to cross Esk Hause into Borrowdale, and to spend the night at Seathwaite,- the first settlement there. Now there is, as we have seen, another Seathwaite on the Duddon; and mistakes frequently arise between them. On Esk Hause, one of the ladies lost sight of her party behind some of the rocks scattered among the tarns there, and took a turn to the right instead of the left. A shepherd of whom she inquired her way to Seathwaite, pointed down to the Duddon valley; and that way she went till she found herself at Cockley Beck, ...
	date:-	1855
	period:-	19th century, late; 1850s
	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.
		Seathwaite
	placename:-	Seathwaite
	county:-	Cumberland
	date:-	1839
	period:-	19th century, early; 1830s
	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:-	Seathwaite
	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
		Page 205:-
		... The dale opens about four miles higher, till you come to Seathwaite, where lies the way, mounting the hill to the right, that leads to the wad-mines; all farther access is here barred to prying mortals, only there is a little path winding over the fells, and for some weeks in the year passable to the dalesmen; but the mountains know well that these innocent people will not reveal the mysteries of their ancient kingdom, 'the reign Chaos and Old Night,' only I learned that this dreadful road, divided again, leads one branch to Ravenglass, and the other to Hawkshead.
	date:-	1769
	period:-	18th century, late; 1760s
	old text:-	Miller 1847
		Report on the Fall of Rain in the Lake Districts of Cumberland and Westmoreland in 1846, by John Fletcher Miller, printed by G Irwin, Lowther Street, Whitehaven, Cumberland, 1847.
		Page 5:-
		At Seathwaite, there have been thirty-six days in which the quantity of measured rain was between one and two inches; six days between two and three inches; five days between three and four inches; one day between four and five inches; and one day between five and six inches.
		The Rain at Seathwaite on the 3rd and 4th of March, amounted to 6.86 inches; and on the 9th and 10th of Oct., the fall was upwards of 9 inches. On three days of the latter month, there fell 12.17 inches, so that if no part of the rain deposited in this period, had been absorbed by the ground, or carried off by the rivulets, the whole valley would have been covered with a sheet of water, more than a foot in depth.
		Of the total fall of Rain at Seathwaite in 1846 (143.518 inches), 103.24 inches fell to the share of January, February, March, July, August and October; the other six months, received much less than an average quantity. In November and December, 1845, there fell 45 3/4 inches; in the corresponding months of 1846, the fall but slightly exceeds 17 inches.
		...
		... whilst the Lake district stations generally, have received considerable more rain than in 1845, the deposit in the five wettest localities, is somewhat less than in the previous year.
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	placename:-	Seathwaite
	date:-	1847
	period:-	19th century, early; 1840s
	descriptive text:-	Gents Mag 1751
		Map of the Black Lead Mines in Cumberland, and area, scale about 2 miles to 1 inch, published in the Gentleman's Magazine, 1751.
		... arrived at Seathwaite, which is just under the mines [black lead mines], and, as near as I can compute, about 10 miles distant from Keswic. ...
		...
		... we descended to our companions, repassed the mines, got to Seathwayte, were chearfully regaled by an honest farmer in his puris naturalibus, returned to Keswic ...
	placename:-	Seathwaite
	other name:-	Seathwayte
	date:-	1751
	period:-	18th century, late; 1750s
	hearsay	The wettest settlement in Great Britain, annual rainfall 125 inches.
	Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008

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