Old Cumbria Gazetteer

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	placename:-	St Patrick's Well
	locality:-	Patterdale
	parish	Patterdale parish, once in Westmorland
	county:-	Cumbria
		spring; well; water trough
	coordinates:-	NY38771663
	10Km square:-	NY31
	1Km square	NY3816
		St Patrick's Well -- Patterdale -- Patterdale -- Cumbria / -- 30.9.2005
	old map:-	OS County Series (Wmd 12 11)
		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:-	St Patrick's Well
		well
	person:-	: St Patrick
	date:-	1890=1899
	period:-	19th century, late; 1890s
	old map:-	Clarke 1787 map (Ullswater)
		Map series, lakes and roads to the Lakes, by James Clarke, engraved by S J Neele, 352 Strand, London, included in A Survey of the Lakes of Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire, published by James Clarke, Penrith, and in London etc, from 1787 to 1793.
		St. Patrick's Well
	placename:-	St Patrick's Well
		well
	date:-	1787
	period:-	18th century, late; 1780s
	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.
		Page 32:-
		... A little below the Hall [Patterdale] is a well called St Patrick's Well, where it is said that saint baptized several persons in the year 540, when he was shipwrecked upon Duddon Sands, in his road from Dublin. It was surrounded with four square stones, but the road being repaired, they were removed, and never set up again; although Dr Osbaldeston Bishop of Carlisle, and the Dean of Exeter, when they visited this part, actually paid a man for setting them up, being unwilling that so early a piece of Christian antiquity should be destroyed. ...
	placename:-	St Patrick's Well
	person:-	: St Patrick
	person:-	: Osbaldeston, Bishop
	date:-	1787
	period:-	18th century, late; 1780s
	old map:-	Crosthwaite 1783-94 (Ull)
		Series of maps, An Accurate Map of the Matchless Lake of Derwent, of the Grand Lake of Windermere, of the Beautiful Lake of Ullswater, of Broadwater or Bassenthwaite Lake, of Coniston Lake, of Buttermere, Crummock and Loweswater Lakes, and Pocklington's Island, by Peter Crosthwaite, Kendal, Cumberland now Cumbria, 1783 to 1794.
		St. Patrick's Well
	placename:-	St Patrick's Well
		well
	person:-	: St Patrick
	date:-	1783=1794
	period:-	18th century, late; 1780s; 1790s
	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.
		St. Patricks Well
		circle, tower
	placename:-	St Patricks Well
	date:-	1760
	period:-	18th century, late; 1760s
	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.
		goto source.
		St Patricks well
		No symbol.
	placename:-	St Patricks Well
	county:-	Westmorland
	date:-	1695
	period:-	17th century, late; 1690s
	drawing:-
		courtesy of David Butler
	coordinates:-	NY387166
	date:-	1982
	period:-	1980s
	references	Wainwright 1 Birkhouse Moor 2
	hearsay	St Patrick baptised local residents, about 540.
	Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2013

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