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Blindtarn Gill Farm, Easedale
Blindtarn Gill Farm
locality:-   Easedale
locality:-   Grasmere
civil parish:-   Lakes (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   NY32320820
1Km square:-   NY3208
10Km square:-   NY30


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CBU35.jpg (taken 24.9.2014)  
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CBU36.jpg (taken 24.9.2014)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 18 16) 
placename:-  Blindtarn Gill
source data:-   Maps, 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.

evidence:-   possibly old map:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd) 
placename:-  Gill
source data:-   Map, 4 sheets, The County of Westmoreland, scale 1 inch to 1 mile, surveyed 1768, and engraved and published by Thomas Jefferys, London, 1770.
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"Gill"
circle, labelled in italic lowercase text; settlement, farm, house, or hamlet? 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland

evidence:-   old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s
source data:-   Photograph, black and white, Blindtarn Ghyll House presumably Blindtarn Gill Farm, Grasmere, Westmorland, by Herbert Bell, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s.
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stamped at reverse:-  "HERBERT BELL / Photographer / AMBLESIDE"
item:-  Armitt Library : ALPS30
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Blindtarn Gill
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"BLINDTARN GILL / / / LAKES / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 452085 / NY3232308201"

story:-  
George and Sarah Green were caught in a snow storm walking home to Blindtarn Gill Farm, from a sale in Langdalehead, and died in White Gill, 19 March 1808. Agness, the eldest of their six children, looked after the family and farm, feeding and milking etc, for two days before being able to go for help.
Dorothy Wordsworth raised funds, and got families in Grasmere to take in the orphans; Sarah becoming a servant with the Wordsworth Family. The children are buried in Grasmere.

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