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placename:- | Blea Water | |
parish |
Shap Rural parish, once in
Westmorland
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county:- | Cumbria | |
lake | ||
coordinates:- |
NY448107 | |
10Km square:- |
NY41 | |
1Km square | NY4410 | |
![]() Blea Water -- Shap Rural -- Cumbria / -- 17.11.2008 | ||
![]() Blea Water -- Shap Rural -- Cumbria / -- From Harter Fell. -- 7.9.2004 | ||
old map:- |
Garnett 1850s-60s H
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Map of the English Lakes, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, 1850s-60s. | ||
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Blea Wr. | ||
outline with shore form lines, lake or tarn | ||
placename:- | Blea Water | |
date:- | 1850=1869 | |
period:- | 19th century, late; 1850s; 1860s | |
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 35:- | ||
... Blea Water, separated from the last [Small Water] by a projection of High Street, lies at the foot of a lofty rock called Blea Water Crag. Before reaching the valley of Mardale, their two streams become united. | ||
date:- | 1823 | |
period:- | 19th century, early; 1820s | |
source:- |
Otley 1818
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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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lake | ||
old print:- |
Rose 1832-35
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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. | ||
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The accompanying descriptive text is:- | ||
BLEY-WATER TARN, FROM HIGH STREET MOUNTAIN,- WESTMORLAND. | ||
Bley-Water Tarn lies beneath a lofty crag of the same name, forming part of the Mountain High Street. In its approach to the valley of Mardale, the stream from this tarn unites with that of Small Water Tarn, and both flow together northward to the lake of Haweswater. | ||
The artist has alluded in this view to the annual, festivities which take place on the broad top of High Street. Horse-racing forms the principal feature in the sports, which derive no little additional zest from a copious supply of cakes and ale from the neighbouring villages. | ||
Ulverstone lies in the distance. | ||
placename:- | Bley Water Tarn | |
date:- | 1835 | |
period:- | 19th century, early | |
photographs | ||
![]() | Blea Water -- Shap Rural -- Cumbria / -- 18.4.2007 | |
![]() | Blea Water -- Shap Rural -- Cumbria / -- Outlet weir. -- 17.11.2008 | |
![]() | Blea Water -- Shap Rural -- Cumbria / -- Outlet weir. -- 17.11.2008 | |
fiction |
Perhaps called Bleacliff Tarn in
Ward, Humphrey, Mrs: 1888: Robert Elsmere Book 1 chapter 10:- ... '... Lasst Midsummer Day aa was on t' Shanmoor road, i' t' gloaming. An' aa saw theer t' bogle - thee knaws, t' bogle o' Bleacliff Tarn; ...' earlier in the chapter:- ... the tarn under the frowning precipitous cliffs which marked the western end of High Fell [Harter Fell] ... | |
Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2013 | ||