Old Cumbria Gazetteer

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	placename:-	Small Water
	parish	Shap Rural parish, once in Westmorland
	county:-	Cumbria
		lake
	coordinates:-	NY454100
	10Km square:-	NY41
	10Km square:-	NY40
	1Km square	NY4510
		Small Water -- Shap Rural -- Cumbria / -- 18.4.2007
		Small Water -- Shap Rural -- Cumbria / -- 15.7.2011
	old map:-	Garnett 1850s-60s H
		Map of the English Lakes, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, 1850s-60s.
		outline with shore form lines, lake or tarn
	date:-	1850=1869
	period:-	19th century, late; 1850s; 1860s
	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 159:-
		...
		Small Water is a tarn between High Street and Harter Fell. ...
	placename:-	Small Water
	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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		Page 35:-
		Small Water, rightly named, lies between Harter fell and High Street; and is passed by a mountain track leading from Kentmere to Mardale, over the hause called Nan Bield. ...
	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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		lake
	old print:-	MacBride 1922
		Wild Lakeland, by MacKenzie MacBride illustrated by Alfred Heaton Cooper, published by Adam and Charles Black, London, 1922-28.
		Print, colour, Nan Bield Pass and Small Water Tarn, Mardale, by Alfred Heaton Cooper, published by Adam and Charles Black, 4-6 Soho Square, London, 2nd edn 1928.
		Tipped in opposite p.12 in Wild Lakeland by MacKenzie MacBride.
		printed at bottom:-
		NAN BIELD PASS AND SMALL WATER TARN, MARDALE
		signed at lower right:-
		A. HEATON COOPER
	placename:-	Small Water Tarn
	date:-	1922
	period:-	1920s
	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:-	Small Water Tarn
	date:-	1834
	period:-	19th century, early
		photographs
		Small Water -- Shap Rural -- Cumbria / -- 15.7.2011
	Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008

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