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Cottage, Ambleside
Barn Cottage
Shepherd's Fold
Fairview Cottage
site name:-   Windermere lake
Street:-   Fair View Road
locality:-   Ambleside
civil parish:-   Lakes (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   NY37740463
1Km square:-   NY3704
10Km square:-   NY30 (?) 
SummaryText:-   row of cottages


photograph
BXZ11.jpg  Fairview Cottage.
(taken 13.3.2013)  
photograph
BXZ09.jpg  Barn Cottage and Shepherd's Fold.
(taken 13.3.2013)  

evidence:-   probably descriptive text:- West 1778 (11th edn 1821) 
placename:-  Cottage
source data:-   Guide book, A Guide to the Lakes, by Thomas West, published by William Pennington, Kendal, Cumbria once Westmorland, and in London, 1778 to 1821.
image WS21P071, button  goto source
Page 71, footnote:-  "On the banks of Windermere-water, have been lately built many elegant villas; by ... Mrs. Taylor, Cottage, Ambleside; ... These objects, as works of art, most of which are done in styles suitable to their situation, give an air of consequence to the country, ..."

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Cottage, The
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"THE COTTAGE / / FAIR VIEW ROAD / LAKES / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 450592 / NY3774604631"


photograph
BXZ10.jpg  Porch, Barn Cottage.
(taken 13.3.2013)  

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