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Miterdale, Eskdale
Miterdale
civil parish:-   Eskdale (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   valley
locality type:-   locality
coordinates:-   NY15560159 (etc) 
1Km square:-   NY1501
10Km square:-   NY10

photograph
BYG01.jpg (taken 27.4.2013)  
evidence:-   old map:- Saxton 1579
placename:-  Myterdale
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmorlandiae et Cumberlandiae Comitatus ie Westmorland and Cumberland, scale about 5 miles to 1 inch, by Christopher Saxton, London, engraved by Augustinus Ryther, 1576, published 1579-1645.
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Building, symbol for a hamlet, which may or may not have a nucleus.  "Myterdale"
item:-  private collection : 2
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evidence:-   old map:- Speed 1611 (Cmd) 
placename:-  Myterdale
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Cumberland and the Ancient Citie Carlile Described, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by John Speed, 1610, published by J Sudbury and George Humble, Popes Head Alley, London, 1611-12.
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"Myterdale"
circle, tower 
item:-  private collection : 16
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evidence:-   old map:- Drayton 1612/1622
placename:-  Niterdale
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Cumberlande and Westmorlande, by Michael Drayton, probably engraved by William Hole, scale about 4 or 5 miles to 1 inch, published by John Mariott, John Grismand, and Thomas Dewe, London, 1622.
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"Niterdale"
Lady reclining. 
item:-  JandMN : 168
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evidence:-   old map:- Jansson 1646
placename:-  Myterdale
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Cumbria and Westmoria, ie Cumberland and Westmorland, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Jansson, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1646.
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"Myterdale"
Buildings and tower. 
item:-  JandMN : 88
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evidence:-   old map:- Morden 1695 (Cmd) 
placename:-  Miterdale
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Cumberland, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Robert Morden, 1695, published by Abel Swale, the Unicorn, St Paul's Churchyard, Awnsham, and John Churchill, the Black Swan, Paternoster Row, London, 1695-1715.
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"Miterdale"
Circle. 
item:-  JandMN : 90
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evidence:-   old map:- Badeslade 1742
placename:-  Miterdale
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, A Map of Cumberland North from London, scale about 11 miles to 1 inch, with descriptive text, by Thomas Badeslade, London, engraved and published by William Henry Toms, Union Court, Holborn, London, 1742.
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"Miterdale"
circle, italic lowercase text; village, hamlet or locality 
item:-  JandMN : 115
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evidence:-   probably old map:- Bowen and Kitchin 1760
placename:-  Miterton
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, A New Map of the Counties of Cumberland and Westmoreland Divided into their Respective Wards, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Emanuel Bowen and Thomas Kitchin et al, published by T Bowles, Robert Sayer, and John Bowles, London, 1760.
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"Miterton"
circle, tower 
item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.14.10
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evidence:-   old map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd) 
placename:-  Miterdale
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, 3x2 sheets, The County of Cumberland, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, by Thomas Donald, engraved and published by Joseph Hodskinson, 29 Arundel Street, Strand, London, 1774.
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"Miterdale"
area 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library
evidence:-   old map:- Otley 1818
placename:-  Miterdale
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, The District of the Lakes, Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Jonathan Otley, 1818, engraved by J and G Menzies, Edinburgh, Scotland, published by Jonathan Otley, Keswick, Cumberland, et al, 1833.
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"MITERDALE"
item:-  JandMN : 48.1
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evidence:-   old map:- Garnett 1850s-60s H
placename:-  Miterdale
source data:-   Map of the English Lakes, in Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, 1850s-60s.
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"Miterdale"
river valley 
item:-  JandMN : 82.1
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photograph
BYG40.jpg  Head of the valley,
(taken 27.4.2013)  
photograph
BYG42.jpg  Looking down from the head of the valley.
(taken 27.4.2013)  
photograph
BYG43.jpg  Looking up, towards Sca Fell.
(taken 27.4.2013)  
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BYG39.jpg  Head of the valley,
(taken 27.4.2013)  
story:-  
 The tale of the Beckside Boggle.
A young wife and her child were left in their farm in the Miterdale valley, by the farmer who had business in Whitehaven. At dusk a stranger woman, her head wrapped in a shawl asked for lodging, and was made welcome. She sat down at the fire side where the wife was making tallow candles. The stranger fell asleep, the shawl slipped, revealing a coarse featured man carrying a fearsome knife. The wife, terrified, lifted her heavy pan from the fire, and poured it over the strange man, choking him in boiling mutton fat. Early next day the farmer returned to find his distraught wife, with a ghastly corpse hidden on a ledge. They buried the body, and kept silent about it. The valley has ever since been haunted.
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