Old Cumbria Gazetteer

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	placename:-	Wasdale Head
	locality:-	Wasdale
	parish	Nether Wasdale parish, once in Cumberland
	county:-	Cumbria
		building/s
	coordinates:-	NY186088
	10Km square:-	NY10
	1Km square	NY1808
		Wasdale Head -- Wasdale -- Nether Wasdale -- Cumbria / -- 12.5.2009
		Wasdale Head -- Wasdale -- Nether Wasdale -- Cumbria / -- 11.5.2006
	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.
		Wasdale Hd.
		cross, a church
	placename:-	Wasdale Head
	date:-	1850=1869
	period:-	19th century, late; 1850s; 1860s
	old map:-	Ford 1839 map
		Map of the Lake District, published in A Description of Scenery in the Lake District, by William Ford, published by Charles Thurnham, London, 1839.
		Wastdale Head
	placename:-	Wastdale Head
	county:-	Cumberland
	date:-	1839
	period:-	19th century, early; 1830s
	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 71:-
		...
		... the deep, confined, and fruitful valley of Wastdale Head, with its chapel and half-dozen houses scattered upon a plain of meadow and corn-ground, divided into chequers by stone walls. Beyond, within a bed of steep rocky mountains of pure, unmixed, impenetrable sterility, is the long, narrow, stern, and desolate lake of Wast Water, to the head of which from these houses it is two miles. Refreshment may be had at any of these very respectable statesmen, and the tourist will not offend them by offer-
		Page 72:-
		[offer]ing a sufficient remuneration for their civility and trouble. Near their dwelling is the humble Chapel of Ease, past which a mountain track leads under Scafell by Burnmoor Tarn into Eskdale.
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		... country is more distinguished by sublimity.
		Wastdale Head contains only a few scattered houses; and its small chapel has only eight pews, and is without a burial-ground.
	placename:-	Wastdale Head
	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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		Wasdale Head consists of about half a dozen dwellings sheltered by trees, and a small Chapel, in the midst of an area of arable land, encircled by the loftiest mountains. A public house here is much wanted by travellers; on which account the hospitality of the inhabitants is not unfrequently drawn upon by strangers.
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		Wasdale Head comprises a level area of 400 acres of land, divided by stone walls into small irregular fields, which have been cleared with great industry and labour; as appears from the enormous heaps of stones, piled up from the surplus after completing the inclosures. Here six or seven families have their Chapel, of a size proportionate to the number of inhabitants, and in a style according with the situation; and what Mr. Gray formerly said of Grasmere, may with equal propriety be applied to this vale: 'Not a single red tile, no gentleman's flaring house, or garden walls, break in upon the repose of this little unsuspected paradise; but all is peace, rusticity, and happy poverty, in its neatest, most becoming attire.'
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		A variety of granite with reddish felspar, and which from a deficiency of mica, has sometimes been
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		called sienite, ... may be seen shooting up in places, almost as far as Bootle, and also at Wasdale Head. ... It contains veins of red hematite and micaceous iron ore. ...
	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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	placename:-	Wasdale Head
	old map:-	Simpson 1746 map (Wmd)
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		Warsdale
		Building.
	placename:-	Warsdale
	county:-	Cumberland
	date:-	1746
	period:-	18th century, early; 1740s
	old map:-	Jenner 1643
		Table of distances and map, Westmerland ie Westmorland, now Cumbria, scale about 16 miles to 1 inch, by Thomas Jenner, London, 1643.
		Wasdale chap
		circle
	placename:-	Wasdale Chapel
	date:-	1643
	period:-	17th century, early; 1640s
	old map:-	Saxton 1576
		Map, Westmorlandiae et Cumberlandiae Comitatus ie Westmorland and Cumberland, scale about 5 miles to 1 inch, by Christopher Saxton, London, engraved by Augustinus Ryther, 1576; published 1579-1645.
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		Building, symbol for a hamlet, which may or may not have a nucleus.
		Wasdale chap:
	placename:-	Wasdale Chapel
	county:-	Cumberlandia
		hamlet
	date:-	1576
	period:-	16th century, late; 1570s
	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.
		Page 230:-
		VALLEY OF WASDALE HEAD. (Head Office:- Whitehaven.)
		Braithwaite, Joseph, farmer, Middle How.
		Briggs, Robt., farmer, The Hall.
		Burns, William, farmer, Down-i'th-Dale.
		Colebank, Fletcher, farmer, Burnthwaite.
		Kitchin, Rev. Jos., Middle Row
		Ritson, John, yeoman and boatman, Row Foot.
		Ritson, Wm., farmer, Row Foot
		Ritson, J., farmer, Burnthwaite.
		Robinson, Jefferson, farmer, Rowhead.
	date:-	1855
	period:-	19th century, late; 1850s
	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.
		Wastdale Head, Scawfell Pikes, Cumberland
		Drawn by Thomas Allom, engraved by J Sands, 1833.
	placename:-	Wastdale Head
	date:-	1833
	period:-	19th century, early; 1830s
	old print:-	Farington 1816 (plate 25)
		Set of prints, 43 engravings, The Lakes of Lancashire, Westmorland, and Cumberland, drawings by Jospeph Farington, with text by Thomas Hartwell Horne, published by T Cadell, and W Davies, Strand, and by J M'Creery, Black Horse Court, Fleet Street, London, 1816.
		Print, uncoloured engraving, Wastdale Village, drawn by Joseph Farington, engraved by J Landseer, published by T Cadell and W Davies, Strand, London, 1815.
		Plate 25 in The Lakes of Lancashire, Westmorland and Cumberland ... with text by Thomas Hartwell Horne:-
		WASTDALE VILLAGE, / IS situated among the western mountains of Cumberland, about two miles north from Eskdale; and has in its front the Lake of Wast-Water. From the difficulty of access to these interesting objects, except on the side of Egremont, this Village and Lake are seldom visited by strangers, but the traveller will be well rewarded on approaching the secluded and truly alpine valley in which the village is situated. Here every thing is rural, and seen in the true style of pastoral beauty and simplicity. ...
	placename:-	Wastdale Village
	date:-	1815
	period:-	19th century, early
	old print:-	Barber and Atkinson 1927
		Print, halftone photograph, Looking into Mosedale, view of Wasdale Head, Nether Wasdale, Cumberland, published by James Atkinson, Caxton Printing Works, Ulverston, Lancashire, 1928.
		Tipped in opposite p.38 of Lakeland Passes, by John B Barber and George Atkinson, 1927, 3rd edn 1928.
		at inter negative:-
		WASDALE HEAD. / Atkinsons Series 1266.
		printed at bottom:-
		Looking into Mosedale and showing (right) path to Black Sail. (To face plage 38.
	date:-	1927
	period:-	1920s
	old print:-	Sylvan 1847
		Print, engraving, Wastdale Head, Nether Wasdale, Cumberland, published by John Johnstone, Paternoster Row, London, et al, 1847.
		On p.216 of Sylvan's Pictorial Guide to the English Lakes.
		printed at bottom:-
		WASTDALE HEAD.
	placename:-	Wastdale Head
	date:-	1847
	period:-	19th century, early
	old photograph:-	Bogg 1898
		Photograph, halftone print, Wasdale Head and Great Gable, Nether Wasdale, Cumberland, by F Leach, published by Edmund Bogg, 3 Woodhouse Lane, and James Miles, Guildford Street, Leeds, Yorkshire, 1898.
		Included on p.168 of Lakeland and Ribblesdale, by Edmund Bogg.
	date:-
	period:-	19th century, late
		photographs
		Wasdale Head -- Wasdale -- Nether Wasdale -- Cumbria / -- 25.6.2009
		Wasdale Head -- Wasdale -- Nether Wasdale -- Cumbria / -- The emblem of the Lake District National Park. -- 11.5.2006
	Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008

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