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locality:-
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High Close
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locality:-
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Red Bank
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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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NY340055
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10Km square:-
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NY30
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1Km square |
NY3405 |
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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 48:-
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... He may leave his car where the road to High Close
ascends to the left, and walk to the farm-house at the top.
As there are probably lodgers, he had better not present
himself at the garden door, but go on to the farmyard gate,
pass through the yard to the field, and walk along the brow
till he reaches the grey stone bench. There he is!
overlooking "the finest view in Westmorland." To the extreme
right, Bowfell closes in the Langdale valley, the head of
which is ennobled by the swelling masses of the Pikes. A
dark cleft in the nearer one is the place where the
celebrated Dungeon Ghyll Force is plunging and foaming,
beyond the reach of eye and ear. He can gather from this
station, something of the character of Langdale. It has
levels, here expanding, there contracting; and the stream
winds among them from end to end. There is no lake: and the
mountains send out spurs, alternating or meeting, so as to
make the levels sometimes circular and sometimes winding.
The dwellings are on the rising grounds which skirt the
levels; and this, together with the paving of the road
below, shows that the valley is subject to floods. The
houses, of grey-stone, each on its knoll, with a canopy of
firs and sycamores above it, and ferns scattered all around,
and ewes and lambs nestling near it,- these primitive farms
are cheerful and pleasant objects to look upon, whether from
above or passing among them. Nearer at hand are some vast
quarries of blue slate. Below, among plantations, are seen
the roofs of the Elterwater Powder Mills; whence the road
winds through the village of Langdale Chapel, to the margin
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Page 49:-
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of the pools which make up the lake. From their opposite
shore rise the hills, height above height, range beyond
range. To the left lies Loughrigg Tarn, and, in the
distance, Windermere, with Wray Castle prominent on its
height, and the Lancashire hills closing in the view. It is
a singular prospect, at once noble and lovely; ...
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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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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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Plate, opposite p.49:-
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Print, engraving, Grasmere from Red Bank, drawn by L
Aspland, engraved by W Banks, Edinburgh, published by John
Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, and by Whittaker and Co,
London, 1855.
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L Aspland Delt. / W Banks Sc Edinr. / GRASMERE from RED
BANK.
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person:-
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artist
: Aspland, T L
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person:-
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engraver
: Banks, W
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person:-
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publisher
: Garnett, John
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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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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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... he had better walk for half-a-mile or so,- the descent
of Red Bank being very steep. The great mountain that swells
so grandly above the rest before him is Helvellyn. The lake
that opens below is Grasmere, with its one island, made up
of green slope, black fir clump, and grey barn. At the
further end lies the village, with its old square church
tower, beneath whose shadow Wordsworth is buried. The white
road that winds like a ribbon up and up the gap between
Helvellyn and the opposite fells is the mail road to
Keswick, and the gap is Dunmail Raise. The remarkable and
beautiful hill behind the village is Helm Crag; and its
rocky crest forms the group called the Lion and the Lamb.
The long white house, near the foot of Helvellyn, is the
Swan Inn, whence Scott, Southey, and Wordsworth, set forth
on ponies for the ascent of the mountain: and behind it
rises the path by which pedestrians come from Grasmere to
Patterdale, by the margin of Grisedale tarn, the mountain
tarn of the wild boar, as the words properly signify. To the
left of Helm Crag, a deep valley evidently opens. That is
Easedale;
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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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old print:- |
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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goto source.
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Print, woodcut outline view, The Mountains of Grasmere
and Rydal, by Jonathan Otley, Keswick, Cumberland now
Cumbria, 1834.
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Printed on p.15 of A Concise Description of the English
Lakes, by Jonathan Otley, 5th edition, 1834.
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printed at top:-
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THE MOUNTAINS OF GRASMERE AND RYDAL: as seen from Red-Bank
Head.
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printed at bottom:-
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Hammer Scar / Silver How / Ulskarth, Wythburn head / Helm
Crag and Stile / Littledale Pike, Skiddaw / Raise Gap /
Calva in Caldbeck Fells / Part of Helvellyn / Seat Sandal /
Grisedale Hause / Great Rigg, Fairfield / Green-head Ghyll /
Forest Side / Nab Scar / Scandale Fell / Rydal Park /
Cawdale Moor / Loughrigg Fell
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date:-
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1830
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period:-
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19th century, early
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old print:- |
Otley 1823 (8th edn 1849)
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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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Print, engraving, outline view of mountains, Grasmere
from Red Bank Head, drawn by Mr Binns, Halifax, engraved by
Mr Jewitt, Headington, Oxfordshire, published by Jonathan
Otley, Keswick, Cumberland et al, 1849.
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Opposite p.4 of A Descriptive Guide of the English Lakes,
by Jonathan Otley, 8th edition, 1849.
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printed at bottom:-
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GRASMERE: - FROM RED BANK HEAD.
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printed at top:-
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Hammer Scar / Silver How / Ullskarth, Wythburn Head / Helm
Crag (line 2) / Stile / Littledale Pike, Skiddaw / (Raise
Gap) / Calva, in Caldbeck Fells / Part of Helvellyn / Seat
Sandal / (Grisedale Hause (l.2)) / Great Rigg, Fairfield /
'Green-head Ghyll' WORDS. / Forest Side Fell / Nab Scar /
Scandale Fell / (Rydal Park (line 2)) / Yoak, near Kentmere
/ Loughrigg Fell
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Looking N; 200 degree view, WSW to E.
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coordinates:-
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NY340055
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date:-
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1849
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period:-
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19th century, early
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Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008
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