Old Cumbria Gazetteer

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	site name:-	Ashness Bridge
	locality:-	Ashness
	parish	Borrowdale parish, once in Cumberland
	parish	St John's Castlerigg and Wythburn parish, once in Cumberland
	county:-	Cumbria
		viewpoint; station
	coordinates:-	NY26981970
	10Km square:-	NY21
	1Km square	NY2619
		station, Ashness Bridge -- Ashness Bridge -- Ashness -- Borrowdale and St John's Castlerigg and Wythburn -- Cumbria / -- Looking downstream; Joseph Farington's view, as near as can be judged. -- 17.2.2007
	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 168:-
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		Ashness.- ... Above the fall of Lodore, the view of the lake of Keswick, with the gleaming surface of Bassenthwaite in the distance, is particularly fine.
	date:-	1839
	period:-	19th century, early; 1830s
	old print:-	Farington 1789 (plate 1)
		20 engravings, Views of the Lakes in Cumberland and Westmorland, drawn by Joseph Farington, published by William Byrne, London, 1789.
		Print, engraving, General View of Derwentwater, painted by Joseph Farington, engraved by W Byrne and T Medland, published by W Byrne, 79 Titchfield Street, London, 1784.
		A packhorse on Ashness Bridge in the foreground, Derwent Water with many islands.
		Plate 1 from Views of the Lakes, &c, in Cumberland and Westmorland, published 1789.
	date:-	1784
	period:-	18th century, late
	Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008

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