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site name:-
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Coniston Water
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parish
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Coniston parish, once in
Lancashire
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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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SD3096
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10Km square:-
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SD39
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1Km square |
SD3096 |
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old map:- |
Crosthwaite 1783-94 (Con)
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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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West's 4th Station
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square symbol on the lake
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... his [West's] 4th. is upon the Lake, one Mile and one
Furlong from its Head.
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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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old map:- |
Crosthwaite 1783-94 (Con)
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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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West's 4th. Station
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... his 4th. is upon the Lake, one Mile and one Furlong from
its Head.
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other name:-
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station, Coniston, West 4
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coordinates:-
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SD30949620
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date:-
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1788
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period:-
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18th century, late; 1780s
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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 52:-
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The next grand view is had in the boat, and from the centre
of the lake, opposite to Coniston-hall. Looking towards the
mountains, the lake spreads itself into a noble expanse of
transparent water, and burst into a bay on each side,
bordered with verdant meadows, and inclosed with a variety
of grounds, rising in an exceedingly bold manner. The
objects are beautifully diversified amongst themselves, and
contrasted by the finest exhibition of rural elegance
(cultivation, and pasturage, waving woods, and sloping
inclosures, adorned by nature, and improved by art) under
the bold sides of stupendous mountains, whose airy summits
the elevated eye cannot now reach, and which almost deny
access to human kind.
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Following the line of shore from Coniston-hall, to the upper
end of the lake, the village of Coniston is in full view,
and consists of seats, groups of houses, farms, and cots,
scattered in a picturesque manner over the cultivated slope.
Some are snow-white, others gray; some stand forth on bold
eminences at the head of green inclosures; backed with steep
woods; others are pitched on sweet declivities, and seem
hanging in the
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goto source.
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Page 53:-
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air; some again are on a level with the lake; and all are
neatly covered with blue slate, the produce of the
mountains, and beautified with ornamental yews, hollies, and
tall pines, or firs. This is a charming scene, when the
morning sun tinges the whole with a variety of tints. In the
point of beauty and centre of perspective, a white house,
under a hanging wood, gives life to this picture. Here a
range of dark rugged rocks rise abruptly, and deeply
contrast the transparent surface of the lake, and the stripe
of verdure that skirts their feet. The eastern shore is not
less bold and embayed [1].
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[1] The slate brought down from the mountains is laid up
here, till put on board boats that transport it to
Water-foot.
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date:-
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1778
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period:-
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18th century, late; 1770s
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Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008
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