Old Cumbria Gazetteer |
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| school, Wasdale Head | ||
| Wasdale Head school | ||
| locality:- | Wasdale Head | |
| civil parish:- | Nether Wasdale (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | school (ex) | |
| coordinates:- | NY18650839 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY1808 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY10 | |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Martineau 1855 item:- whittlegate |
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| source data:- | Guide book, A Complete Guide to the English Lakes, by Harriet
Martineau, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland,
and by Whittaker and Co, London, 1855; published 1855-76. goto sourcePage 120:- "[Wasdale Head] ... There is now a school:- a chapel and a school and no public house! The schoolmaster is entertained on "whittlegate" terms: that is, he boards at the farm-houses in turn. An old man told us that the plan answers. "He gets them on very well," said he; "and particularly in the spelling. He thinks that if they can spell, they can do all the rest." Such are the original conclusions arrived at in Wastdale Head. ..." |
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