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site name:-
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Cockshot Wood
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parish
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Keswick parish, once in
Cumberland
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county:-
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Cumbria
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viewpoint; station
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coordinates:-
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NY2622
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10Km square:-
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NY22
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NY2622 |
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descriptive text:- |
Ford 1839 (3rd edn 1843)
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Description of Scenery in the Lake District, by William
Ford, published by Charles Thurnham, London, et al, 1839;
published 1839-52. |
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Page 59:-
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COCKSHOT
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Presents a general view of the lake, and from its vicinity
to the town, its ease of access, and its numerous charms,
demands peculiar attention.
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placename:-
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Cockshot
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date:-
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1839
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period:-
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19th century, early; 1830s
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old map:- |
Crosthwaite 1783-94 (Der)
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presumably the summit in Cockshot Wood?
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NB: Peter Crosthwaite has muddled Thomas West's station's
1 and 2; this should be 1.
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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. |
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Cock-shot / 2d. Station
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other name:-
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station, Derwent Water, West 2
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viewpoint
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coordinates:-
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NY26552272
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date:-
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1783=1794
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period:-
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18th century, late; 1780s; 1790s
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descriptive text:- |
West 1778 (11th edn 1821)
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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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goto source.
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Page 87:-
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STATION I. Cockshut-hill is remarkable for a general view.
It is covered with a motley mixture of young wood; has an
easy ascent to the top, and from it the lake appears in
great beauty. On the floor of a
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Page 88:-
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spacious amphitheatre of the most picturesque mountains
imaginable, an elegant sheet of water is spread out before
you, shining like a mirror, and transparent as crystal;
variegated with islands, adorned with wood, or clothed with
the sweetest verdure, that rise in the most pleasing forms
above the watery plain. The effects all around are amazingly
great; but no words can describe the surprising pleasure of
this scene on a fine day, when the sun plays upon the bosom
of the lake, and the surrounding mountains are illuminated
by his refulgent rays, and their rocky broken summits
invertedly reflected by the surface of the water.
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goto source.
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Addendum; Mr Gray's Journal, 1769
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Page 206:-
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Oct. 4. ... Cockshut-hill, ... to which I walked in the
afternoon; ...
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Page 207:-
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... There is an easy ascent to the top, and the view far
preferable to that on Castle-hill (which you remember)
because this is lower and nearer the lake; for I find all
points that are much elevated, spoil the beauty of the
valley, and make its parts, which are not large, look poor
and diminutive [1]. While I was here, a little shower fell,
red clouds came marching up the hills from the east, and
part of a bright rainbow seemed to rise along the side of
Castle-hill.
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[1] The picturesque point is always thus low in all
prospects: a truth which though the landscape-painter knows,
he cannot always observe; since the patron who employs him
to take a view of his place, usually carries him to some
elevation for that purpose, in order, I suppose, that he may
have more of him for his money. Yet when I say this I would
not be thought to mean that a drawing should be made from
the lowest point possible; as for instance in this very
view, from the lake itself, for then a fore-ground would be
wanting. On this account, when I sailed at Derwent-water, I
did not receive so much pleasure from the superb
amphitheatre of mountains round me, as when, like Mr. Gray,
I traversed its margin; and therefore think he did not loose
much by not taking boat.
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other name:-
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station, Derwent Water, West 1
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site name:-
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Cockshot Hill
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date:-
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1769; 1778
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period:-
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18th century, late; 1760s; 1770s
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Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008
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