Old Cumbria Gazetteer

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	placename:-	Striding Edge
	site name:-	Helvellyn
	parish	Patterdale parish, once in Westmorland
	county:-	Cumbria
	coordinates:-	NY347149
	10Km square:-	NY31
	1Km square	NY3414
		Striding Edge -- Helvellyn -- Patterdale -- Cumbria / -- 9.7.2009
		Striding Edge -- Helvellyn -- Patterdale -- Cumbria / -- 9.7.2009
	text:-	Mason 1907 (edn 1930)
		Page 20:-
		...
		... [Red Tarn] ... is shut in between two sloping walls of rock, the Striding Edge, and the Swirral Edge,- edges indeed, for they are simply steep, narrow, broken pathways on the top of each wall of rock. If you are a good climber, and not apt to become giddy,
		Page 21:-
		you may make your way up by one of these edges; but beware of a false step on either side of the narrow pathway; one such step, and you are plunged down a precipice of a hundred feet.
	date:-	1907
	period:-	1900s
	source:-	Philip/Wilson 1890s
		STRIDING EDGE AND RED TARN, HELVELLYN.
	date:-	1895
	period:-	19th century, late; 1890s
	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.
		Plate, opposite p.104:-
		Print, engraving, outline view, Mountains seen on the Keswick Road approaching Ullswater, drawn by L Aspland, engraved by W Banks, Edinburgh, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, and by Whittaker and Co, London, 1855.
		MOUNTAINS SEEN ON THE KESWICK ROAD APPROACHING ULLSWATER.
		L Aspland Delt. / W Banks Sc Edinr.
		The view is captioned, numbers referring to mountains in the image:-
		1 Place Fell, 2 Birk Fell, 3 Red Screes, 4 Scandale Head, 5 Dove Crag (Hartsop), 6 Birks, 7 Rydal Head, 8 St. Sundays Crag, 9, Fairfield, 10 Glenridding Dod, 11 Dolly Waggon Pike, 12 Bleaberry Fell, 13 Striding Edge, 14 Herring Pike, 15 Gowbarrow Park.
	person:-	artist : Aspland, T L
	person:-	engraver : Banks, W
	person:-	publisher : Garnett, John
	date:-	1855
	period:-	19th century, late; 1850s
	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 59:-
		... On reaching the first ridge of the mountain, the long looked for summit pile is discovered on the top of a rocky precipice, seven hundred feet in height above Red Tarn, which lies enclosed in the bosom of the mountain before us. From hence the shortest way is one that many would hesitate to venture upon; while others might think it a stigma upon their courage to decline it. It lies along the top of Striding Edge, which in
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		Page 60:-
		some parts affords little more footing than the ridge of a house, while its sides are far steeper than an ordinary roof. ...
	date:-	1823
	period:-	19th century, early; 1820s
	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, Striding Edge, Helvellyn, by Alfred Heaton Cooper, published by Adam and Charles Black, 4-6 Soho Square, London, 2nd edn 1928.
		Tipped in opposite p.172 in Wild Lakeland by MacKenzie MacBride.
		printed at bottom:-
		STRIDING EDGE, HELVELLYN
		signed at lower right:-
		A. HEATON COOPER
	placename:-	Striding Edge
	date:-	1922
	period:-	1920s
	old print:-	Robertson 1911
		Wordsworthshire, by Eric Robertson, Windermere, Westmorland, illustrated by Arthur Tucker, published by Chatto and Windus, London, 1911.
		Print, lithograph? Red Tarn, Helvellyn, from a watercolour by Arthur Tucker, published by Chatto and Windus, London, 1911.
		Tipped in opposite p.226 of Wordsworthshire by Eric Robertson.
		Striding Edge in the foreground.
		printed at bottom:-
		RED TARN, HELVELLYN
		signed at painting lower left:-
		Arthur Tucker
	date:-	1911
	period:-	1910s
	old print:-	Pearson 1900s
		Print, halftone photograph, Striding Edge, from Grisedale, Patterdale, Westmorland, published by C Arthur Pearson, Henrietta Street, London, 1900s.
		On p.177 of Pearson's Gossipy Guide to the English Lakes and Neighbouring Districts.
		printed at bottom:-
		STRIDING EDGE, FROM GRISEDALE. (p.218.)
	placename:-	Striding Edge
	date:-	1900=1909
	period:-	1900s
	old print:-	Jenkinson 1875
		Guide book, A Practical Guide to the English Lake District, by Henry Irwin Jenkinson, published by Edward Stanford, 55 Charing Cross, London, 4th edition 1875.
		Print, lithograph, outline view, Panoramic Sketches from Helvellyn, Westmorland, by Edwin A Pettitt, London, published by Edward Stanford, 55 Charing Cross, London, 1875.
		... Striding Edge ...
	placename:-	Striding Edge
	date:-	1875
	period:-	19th century, late
	old print:-	Black 1856 (23rd edn 1900)
		Guide book, Black's Guide to the English Lakes, published by Adam and Charles Black, North Bridge, Edinburgh, Lothian, Scotland, or Soho Square, London, 1856 to 1900s onwards.
		Print, lithograph, Outline Views, Ullswater - Mountains as seen a little on the Matterdale Road near Lyulph's Tower on Ullswater, and Mountains as seen at the Slate Quarry at Blowick on Ullswater, by J Flintoft, Keswick, Cumberland, engraved by R Mason, Edinburgh, Lothian, about 1900.
		... 13 Striding Edge ...
	placename:-	Striding Edge
	date:-	1900
	period:-	1900s
	old print:-	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.
		Print, uncoloured engraving, outline view, Mountains seen on the Keswick Road approaching Ullswater, drawn by L Aspland, engraved by W Banks, Edinburgh, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, and by Whittaker and Co, London, 1855.
		Used opposite p.104 in A Complete Guide to the English Lakes, by Harriet Martineau.
		The view is captioned, numbers referring to mountains in the image - 1 Place Fell, 2 Birk Fell, 3 Red Screes, 4 Scandale Head, 5 Dove Crag (Hartsop), 6 Birks, 7 Rydal Head, 8 St. Sundays Crag, 9, Fairfield, 10 Glenridding Dod, 11 Dolly Waggon Pike, 12 Bleaberry Fell, 13 Striding Edge, 14 Herring Pike, 15 Gowbarrow Park.
		printed at top:-
		MOUNTAINS SEEN ON THE KESWICK ROAD APPROACHING ULLSWATER.
		printed at bottom left, right:-
		L Aspland Delt. / W Banks Sc Edinr. / ...
	placename:-	Striding Edge
	date:-	1855
	period:-	19th century, late
	old print:-	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.
		Print, engraving, outline view, Mountains seen on the Keswick Road approaching Ullswater, drawn by L Aspland, engraved by W Banks, Edinburgh, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, and by Whittaker and Co, London, 1855.
		Opposite p.104 in A Complete Guide to the English Lakes, by Harriet Martineau.
		The view is captioned, numbers refering to mountains in the image - 1 Place Fell, 2 Birk Fell, 3 Red Screes, 4 Scandale Head, 5 Dove Crag (Hartsop), 6 Birks, 7 Rydal Head, 8 St. Sundays Crag, 9, Fairfield, 10 Glenridding Dod, 11 Dolly Waggon Pike, 12 Bleaberry Fell, 13 Striding Edge, 14 Herring Pike, 15 Gowbarrow Park.
		printed at top:-
		MOUNTAINS SEEN ON THE KESWICK ROAD APPROACHING ULLSWATER.
		printed at bottom left, right:-
		L Aspland Delt. / W Banks Sc Edinr.
	placename:-	Striding Edge
	date:-	1855
	period:-	19th century, late
	descriptive text:-	Farington 1789 (plate 12) -- perhaps relevant
		20 engravings, Views of the Lakes in Cumberland and Westmorland, drawn by Joseph Farington, published by William Byrne, London, 1789.
		Print, engraving, Patterdale from Martendale Fell, painted by Joseph Farington, engraved by W Byrne and T Medland, published by W Byrne, 79 Titchfield Street, London, 1788.
		The peak in the background is perhaps Striding Edge end on.
		Plate 12 from Views of the Lakes, &c, in Cumberland and Westmorland, published 1789; with descriptive text:-
		PATTERDALE, from MARTINDALE-FELL.
		... The Mountains seen in the Distance belong to the same Chain with Helvellyn. These Hills having their Summits sharp and pointed resemble more the Alpine Forms than any which are to be met with in this Country. It is worthy of Remark that in any one Range or System of Mountains a great Similarity of Outline generally prevails; the same Strata perhaps, by whatever Cause the Inequalities of the Earth's Surface might have been produced, naturally disposing themselves into the same or similar Forms.
	date:-	1788
	period:-	18th century, late
	old photograph:-	Bogg 1898
		Photograph, halftone print, Red Tarn, Helvellyn, St John's Castlerigg and Wythburn, Cumbria, by W G Foster, published by Edmund Bogg, 3 Woodhouse Lane, and James Miles, Guildford Street, Leeds, Yorkshire, 1898.
		Included on p.172 of Lakeland and Ribblesdale, by Edmund Bogg.
	date:-
	period:-	19th century, late
	old print:-	Black 1841 (3rd edn 1846)
		Guide book, Black's Picturesque Guide to the English Lakes, published by Adam and Charles Blck, North Bridge, Edinburgh, Lothian, Scotland, 1841 to 1888.
		Print, engraving, outline view, Mountains as seen a little on the Matterdale Road near Lyulph's Tower on Ulleswater, and Mountains as seen at the Slate Quarry at Blowick on Ulleswater, by J Flintoft, Keswick, Cumberland, engraved by R Mason, Edinburgh, Lothian, about 1846.
		... 13 Striding Edge ...
	placename:-	Striding Edge
	date:-	1844
	period:-	19th century, early
		photographs
		Striding Edge -- Helvellyn -- Patterdale -- Cumbria / -- 11.9.2007
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