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placename:-
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station, White Moss Common
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site name:-
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White Moss Common
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locality:-
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Grasmere
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parish
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Lakes parish, once in
Westmorland
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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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NY3209
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10Km square:-
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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
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Page 80:-
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Mount Grasmere hill, and from the top, have a view of as
sweet a scene as travelled eye ever beheld [2]. Mr. Gray's
description of this peaceful, happy vale, will raise a wish
in every reader to see so primaeval a place.
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'The bosom of the mountains, spreading
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[2] A little to the left of the road, is No.5, of Mr.
Farrington's views.
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Page 81:-
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here into a broad bason, discover in the midst Grasmere
water, its margin is hollowed into small bays, with
eminences; some of rock, some of soft turf, that half
conceal and vary the figure of the little lake they command:
from the shore, a low promontory pushes itself far into the
water, and on it stands a white village, with a parish
church rising in the midst of it; hanging inclosures, corn
fields, and meadows, green as an emerald, with their trees,
and hedges, and cattle, fill up the whole space from the
edge of the water; and just opposite you, is a large farm
house, at the bottom of a steep smooth lawn, embosomed in
old woods, which climb half way up the mountains' sides, and
discover above, a broken line of crags, that crown the
scene. Not a single red tile, no staring gentleman's house,
break in upon the repose of this little unsuspected paradice
(sic); but all is peace, rusticity and happy poverty, in its
neatest, most becoming attire [1].'
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Mr. Gray's description is taken from the road descending
from Dunmail-raise. ...
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[1] The whole of Mr. Gray's journal is given in the Addenda,
Article III.
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placename:-
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station, Grasmere Hill
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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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