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There was gone (under Hawes Water).
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placename:-
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Dun Bull
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locality:-
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Mardale Green
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locality:-
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Mardale
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parish
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Shap Rural parish, once in
Westmorland
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county:-
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Cumbria
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inn
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coordinates:-
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NY476115
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10Km square:-
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NY41
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1Km square |
NY4711 |
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source:- |
Martineau 1855
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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. |
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Page 173:-
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The hostess at Mardale Green Inn will make her guests
comfortable with homely food and a clean bed: and the host
will, if necessary, act as guide up the passes. The small
green level which from the mountains looks such a mere
speck, is of some importance at a distance. It actually
sends 3,000 pounds of butter weekly to Manchester by the
railway. The carrier's waggon picks up the baskets from the
scattered dwellings in the dale, and transmits no less than
thirty cwts. per week to the Manchester folk.
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Page 174:-
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... in the ascent from Mardale Green; but the traveller
indulges in frequent rests, for the sake of looking back
upon the singularly-secluded valley, ... with its ... little
inn, recognised to the last by the
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Page 175:-
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sycamores and poplars which overshadow its roof, and rustle
before the door.
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person:-
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mountain guide
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date:-
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1855
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period:-
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19th century, late; 1850s
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descriptive text:- |
Otley 1823 (5th edn 1834)
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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 28:-
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There is a public house at Mardale Green, about a mile above
the head of the lake [Hawes Water], ...
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goto source.
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Page 115:-
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... the Dun Bull on Mardale Green will be no alarming or
unwelcome object to the weary traveller.
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date:-
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1823
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period:-
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19th century, early; 1820s
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photographs
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courtesy of John Bennet |
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Dun Bull -- Mardale Green -- Mardale -- Shap Rural --
Cumbria /
-- 'DUN BULL / HOTEL / R. E. D[ ]'
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photographs
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Dun Bull -- Mardale Green -- Mardale -- Shap Rural --
Cumbria /
-- The Dun Bull Hotel.
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hearsay |
The Mardale shepherds meet was based here, the last meeting
in 1935 before the valley was drowned. It is said that the
wake for the meet lasted from the Friday evening to the next
Tuesday.
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Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008
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