Old Cumbria Gazetteer

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	placename:-	Yewdale
	parish	Coniston parish, once in Lancashire
	county:-	Cumbria
		valley
	coordinates:-	NY308004
	10Km square:-	NY30
	1Km square	NY3000
	old print:-	Heaton Cooper 1905 (edn 1908)
		Print, colour halftone, The Shepherd, Yewdale, Coniston, Lancashire, from a watercolour painting by Alfred Heaton Cooper, published by Adam and Charles Black, London, 2nd edn 1908.
		Opposite p.72 of The English Lakes, painted by Alfred Heaton Cooper, described by William T Palmer.
		printed at tissue opposite the print:-
		THE SHEPHERD, YEWDALE, CONISTON
	placename:-	Yewdale
	person:-	shepherd
	date:-	1905
	period:-	1900s
	old photograph:-	Bell 1880s-1940s
		Photograph, black and white, Yewdale Fells and Yewdale, Coniston, Lancashire, by Herbert Bell, photographer, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s.
	date:-	1890=1899
	period:-	19th century, late
	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 27:-
		... Yewdale, with its grey rocks, cushioned with heather up to their summits, stretches away northwards from the head of the lake, into a gorge where the mountains overlap. ...
	date:-	1855
	period:-	19th century, late; 1850s
	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 11:-
		...
		YEWDALE.
		From the inn at Coniston, a leisurely traveller might have much pleasure in looking into Yewdale, with its venerable tree, which is tall and beautiful, though not umbrageous, like those of Patterdale
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		and Lorton - and Tilberthwaite, with its hundred woody knolls - returning to the inn from the head of Yewdale, by a mountain tract, having the farm-house of Tarn Hows on the right. On this road, Coniston Water is resplendently exhibited in its whole length, with all its pretty bays and mazy windings.
	placename:-	Yewdale
	date:-	1839
	period:-	19th century, early; 1830s
	old print:-	Otley 1823 (8th edn 1849)
		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.
		Engraving, outline view of mountains, Coniston Water from near Bank Ground, drawn by T Binns, engraved by O Jewitt, opposite p.8 of A Descriptive Guide of the English Lakes, by Jonathan Otley, 8th edition, 1849.
	placename:-	Yewdale
	date:-	1849
	period:-	19th century, early; 1840s
	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 96:-
		At Coniston, besides the views of the lake from its banks, and from its bosom in a boat, the lovers of landscape beauties may find some pretty walks in
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		the vales of Yewdale and Tilberthwaite. ...
	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:-	Yewdale
		valley
	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, Grasmere and Coniston - Mountains as seen from Redbank, Grasmere, and Mountains as seen a little beyond Tent Lodge on the Road from Coniston to Ulverstone, by J Flintoft, Keswick, Cumberland, engraved by R Mason, Edinburgh, Lothian, about 1900.
		... Yewdale & Tilberthwaite ...
	placename:-	Yewdale
	date:-	1900
	period:-	1900s
	old print:-	Goodwin 1887 (edn 1890)
		Set of prints, etchings? 56 views in Westmorland, Cumberland, etc, by Harry Goodwin, published by Swan Sonnenschein and Co, Paternoster Square, London, 1890.
		Print, etching? Yewdale, Coniston, Lancashire, by Harry Goodwin, published by Swan Sonnenschein and Co, Paternoster Square, London, 1890.
		Tipped in opposite p.48 of Through the Wordsworth Country, by William Knight.
		printed at lower left:-
		Yewdale
	placename:-	Yewdale
	date:-	1886
	period:-	19th century, late
	old drawing:-
		Drawing, In Yewdale, near Coniston, Lancashire, by John Harper, 1840.
		View of Yewdale near Coniston. Rocky outrcop covered with trees in the foreground. Coniston fells in the background. Executed in pencil with touches of white gouache on buff coloured paper. Preparatory sketch drawn on the spot by the artist.
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		In Yewdale. Nr Coniston. 28 Aug/40
	placename:-	Yewdale
	date:-	1840
	period:-	19th century, early
	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 from Red Bank, Grasmere, and Mountains as seen a little beyond Tent-Lodge on the Road from Coniston to Ulverston, by J Flintoft, Keswick, Cumberland, engraved by R Mason, Edinburgh, Lothian, about 1846.
		... Yewdale & Tilberthwaite ...
	placename:-	Yewdale
	date:-	1844
	period:-	19th century, early
		bridge, Yewdale
		field drainage, Coniston
		Giant's Grave, Yewdale
		Guards Quarries, Coniston
		hedge, Coniston
		High Yewdale, Coniston
		limekiln, Low Yewdale
		Low Yewdale Cottage, Coniston
		Low Yewdale, Coniston
		Penny Rigg Mill, Tilberthwaite
		Penny Rigg Quarries, Tilberthwaite
		Shepherd Bridge, Coniston
		Shepherd's Bridge, Yewdale
		Tarn Hows Wood, Coniston
		Tilberthwaite Gill, Coniston
	Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2013

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