Old Cumbria Gazetteer

Garsdale

locality:-

Garsdale valley

civil parish:-

Garsdale (formerly Yorkshire)

county:-

Cumbria

locality type:-

locality

locality type:-

buildings

coordinates:-

SD74818963 (etc)

1Km square:-

SD7489

10Km square:-

SD78

BQV15.jpg (taken 18.6.2009)

evidence:-

old map:- Saxton 1579
placename:- Garstall

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.

Sax9SD78.jpg
Church, symbol for a parish or village, with a parish church. "Garstall"
item:- private collection : 2
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evidence:-

old map:- Mercator 1595 (edn?)
placename:- Garstall

source data:-

Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmorlandia, Lancastria, Cestria etc, ie Westmorland, Lancashire, Cheshire etc, scale about 10.5 miles to 1 inch, by Gerard Mercator, Duisberg, Germany, 1595, edition 1613-16.

MER5WmdA.jpg
"Garstall"
circle
item:- Armitt Library : 2008.14.3
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evidence:-

old map:- Speed 1611 (Wmd)
placename:- Garstall

source data:-

Map, hand coloured engraving, The Countie Westmorland and Kendale the Cheif Towne, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Speed, 1610, published by George Humble, Popes Head Alley, London, 1611-12.

SP14SD79.jpg
"Garstall"
circle, building and tower
item:- Armitt Library : 2008.14.5
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evidence:-

perhaps old text:- Brathwaite 1638
placename:- Gastile

source data:-

Poem, Drunken Barbaby's Four Journeys to the North of England, by Richard Brathwaite, 1638, published 1716-1818 at least.

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Page 105:- ""
"Thence to Gastile, I was drawn in"
"To an Alehouse, near adjoining"
"To a Chapel; I drank Stingo,"
"With a Butcher, and Domingo"
"Th' Curate, who to my discerning,"
"Was not guilty of much Learning."

evidence:-

old map:- Jansson 1646
placename:- Garstall

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.

JAN3SD68.jpg
"Garstall"
Buildings and tower.
item:- JandMN : 88
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evidence:-

old map:- Morden 1695 (Wmd)
placename:- Garstall

source data:-

Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmorland, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by Robert Morden, published by Abel Swale, the Unicorn, St Paul's Churchyard, Awnsham, and John Churchill, the Black Swan, Paternoster Row, London, 1695.