Old Cumbria Gazetteer

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	placename:-	Martindale Common
	parish	Martindale parish, once in Westmorland
	county:-	Cumbria
		common; forest
	coordinates:-	NY4216
	10Km square:-	NY41
	1Km square	NY4216
	old map:-	OS County Series (Wmd 12 12) OS County Series (Wmd 13 9)
		County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25 inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948.
		County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25 inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948.
	placename:-	Martindale Common
		locality
	date:-	1890=1899
	period:-	19th century, late; 1890s
	old text:-	Clarke 1787
		Guide book, A Survey of the Lakes of Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire, by James Clarke, Penrith, Cumberland, and in London etc, 1787 and 1789; and Plans of the Lakes ... 1793.
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		... The forest lands are held on the common forest tenure; the tenants having what grass they can take with the sythe. They likewise covenant not to drive the lord's deer out of it at any time of the year: In Summer, however, the deer seldom come there, they being mostly red deer, which always frequent the tops of the mountains in that season. Whenever the lord goes to hunt the stag, the Bailiff summons all the tenants, before sun-set the preceding night, to attend their strones or stations: these stations are at two places, viz. Bampskin [Rampskin] and Bannerdale, where the deer chiefly lye, and where the tenants stand with their dogs to prevent the deer from escaping into the mountains. This service, which they are to render once a year, is called a Boon Day, and for this every tenant has his dinner and a quart of ale: it is also a custom here, that the person who first seizes the hunted deer shall have his head for his trouble. It is remarkable that the first buck taken here was seized by a woman: she, for the sake of his head, laid hold upon him as he stood at bay upon a dunghill, threw him down, and getting upon his neck, held him fast. The late Mr Hassel frequently called upon the tenants for this service, and held upon these occasions a brilliant company of both sexes: his hunting was not, however, very successful; for I was told by one of the tenants, who had frequently attended his stand, that he never saw a stag either taken by the hounds, or by them driven to Ulswater, as one of our authors in a most pompous manner informs us. I have myself seen deer take the water; but they were, I think, always either such as had been wounded by shot, and afterwards pursued by the Bailiff's hounds, or such as had strayed from Barton or Patterdale, and had lain among the farmer's corn. A red deer swims the quickest and strongest of any animal except a swine: one of the latter I once pursued upon this Lake in a boat, which run remarkably quickly with oars; notwithstanding, the animal was only ten weeks
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		old, and had swam two miles before I set forward. Such was its swiftness and perseverance, that, had it not been partly through compassion to the owner, and partly through fear of the ridicule of the spectators, I had certainly given up the chace.
		...
	date:-	1787
	period:-	18th century, late; 1780s
	old map:-	West 1784 map
		A Map of the Lakes in Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire, now Cumbria, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, engraved by Paas, 53 Holborn, London, included in the Guide to the Lakes by Thomas West, published by William Pennington, Kendal, Westmorland, and in London, from the 3rd edition 1784, to 1821.
		MARTINDALE FOREST
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	placename:-	Martindale Forest
	county:-	Westmorland
	old map:-	Jefferys 1770 (Wmd)
		Map, The County of Westmoreland, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, surveyed by J Ainslie and perhaps T Donald, engraved and published by Thomas Jefferys, London, 1770.
		MARTINDALE FOREST
		area
	placename:-	Martindale Forest
	county:-	Westmorland
	date:-	1770
	period:-	18th century, late; 1770s
	old map:-	Bowen and Kitchin 1760
		New Map of the Counties of Cumberland and Westmoreland, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, Emanuel Bowen and Thomas Kitchin, published by T Bowles, John Bowles and Son, Robert Sayer, and John Tinney, 1760; published 1760-87.
		Martendale Forest
		trees or bushes
	placename:-	Martendale Forest
	date:-	1760
	period:-	18th century, late; 1760s
	descriptive text:-	Simpson 1746 -- presumably relevant
		The three volumes of maps and descriptive text published as 'The Agreeable Historian, or the Compleat English Traveller ...', by Samuel Simpson, 1746.
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		...
		... there are divers Forests in the Barony of Westmoreland, as ... Martindale-Forest, which extends almost the whole Length of Ulleswater; ...
	placename:-	Martindale Forest
	date:-	1746
	period:-	18th century, early; 1740s
	old map:-	Simpson 1746 map (Wmd)
		Maps, Westmorland, scale about 8 miles to 1 inch, and Cumberland? in The Agreeable Historian by Samuel Simpson, printed by R Walker, Fleet Lane, London, 1746.
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		Markendale For
		Tree symbols.
	placename:-	Markendale Forrest
	county:-	Westmorland
	date:-	1746
	period:-	18th century, early; 1740s
	old map:-	Morden 1695 (Wmd)
		Maps, Westmorland, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, and Cumberland, scale about 3 miles to 1 inch, by Robert Morden, 1695.
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		Martendale Forrest
		Trees.
	placename:-	Martendale Forrest
	county:-	Westmorland
	date:-	1695
	period:-	17th century, late; 1690s
	hearsay	A herd of 2 or 300 red deer is based here. Their summer grazing is in Yewgrove Gill, The Nab. Other times they spread out as far as Longsleddale, Kentmere, Shap, as well as the surrounding fells.
		Bannerdale, Martindale
		Beda Fell, Martindale
		Beda Head, Martindale
		Black Crag, Martindale
		Bungalow, Martindale
		Fusedale, Martindale
		Gowk Hill, Martindale
		Henhow, Martindale
		Nab, Martindale
		Ramps Gill, Martindale
		Red Crag, Martindale
		Thrang Crag, Martindale
		Thrangcrag, Martindale
	Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2013

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