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    The Rothay is a spate river of the Lake District in north-west England. Its name comes from Old Norse and translates literally as the red one. This has...
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  • Rothay Reynolds (1872–1940) was an English journalist. Before the First World War he worked in Russia and was a friend of Saki. He dedicated My Slav Friends...
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  • Rothay Manor is a country house near Ambleside in Cumbria. It is a Grade II listed building. The house was built for John Crosfield, a merchant from Liverpool...
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    up the Troutbeck valley and up the valleys that now contain the rivers Rothay and Brathay. There were at least nine ice retreat phases, indicated by buried...
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    sea level of 208 ft (62 m). The lake is both fed and drained by the River Rothay, which flows through the village before entering the lake, and then exits...
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    appeared at the beginning of The Square Egg and Other Sketches (1924). Rothay Reynolds, a close friend, wrote a relatively lengthy memoir in The Toys...
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    located near the hamlet of Rydal, between Grasmere and Ambleside in the Rothay Valley. The lake is 1,290 yards (1.18 km) long and varies in width up to...
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    Stepping stones, across the River Rothay, in the Lake District, England...
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    still extant word meaning "lake" or "pool". The village is on the River Rothay, which flows into Grasmere lake about ⅓ mile (500 metres) to the south....
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    Clappersgate. After another quarter of a mile (400 m) it joins the River Rothay close to Croft Lodge south-west of Ambleside before flowing into the northern...
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    Greenburn valley, which joins the Rothay at Helm Side. To the west and south is Easedale Beck, which is also a feeder of the Rothay, the watersmeet being just...
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    The Drukken Steps, stepping stones in Scotland The stepping stones in the Rothay, Lake District, England The stepping stones across the Mole at the foot...
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    District's highest pass traversed by road, the A592 road between Ambleside in Rothay Valley and Patterdale in Ullswater Valley. The road gradient approaches...
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    purportedly on one of the sites he preached on, on a bank of the River Rothay. William Wordsworth's grave is located in the cemetery here. St Oswald's...
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    Parts of the town have been flooded on numerous occasions, with the River Rothay breaking its banks during Storm Desmond in December 2015. Cumbria portal...
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    east bank) River Brathay (combines with Rothay to enter head of Windermere) Great Langdale Beck (L) River Rothay (combines with Brathay to enter head of...
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    of Papermill Coppice, and turning south to join the River Rothay east of Ambleside. The Rothay flows only a short distance south before emptying into Windermere...
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    Stepping stones in the River Rothay, Lake District, England....
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  • Castle Naworth Castle Netherby Hall Overwater Hall Rampside Hall Rose Castle Rothay Manor Rusland Hall Rydal Hall Salkeld Hall Scaleby Castle Sedgwick House...
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    painter John Harden Clay. Clay would visit the Lake District and the River Rothay near Ambleside after which she had been named. At the end of 1895 she started...
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    inadequately investigated at the time. Cumbria portal River Brathay River Rothay Trout Beck River Leven Fletcher, Joe (23 June 2022). "'Disaster' as pollution...
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    Pass (road) 454 m (1,489 ft)/ NY401082 Patterdale/ Bridge End/ NY399143 Rothay / Ambleside/ NY376047 North: A592 (continuing to the town of Windermere)...
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    Company in 1858. This company introduced the steamers Rothay (1867) and the Swan (1869). The Rothay was the last paddle steamer built for use on the lake...
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    about four miles from Red Screes through the town of Ambleside to the River Rothay. Its course includes two long-popular tourist attractions, Stockghyll Force...
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  • according to Fordun, was marble. Under Breac's great-grandson, Ethachius Rothay, the Scots went to Albion, renaming it Scotia. The Picts then settled in...
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    the abundance of the elements fell, -ay and dale (Mickledore, Scafell, Rothay, Duddon, Langsleddale, Allerdale). Many town and villages also contain Norse...
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    is surrounded by an unusual amount of open water. To the north the River Rothay flows through Grasmere and Rydal Water before bending around the eastern...
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    raised in 1955 and re-built. Preserved at the Windermere Steamboat Museum. Rothay 1865 58 Built for Windermere United Steam Yacht Co in 1865 by Lancaster...
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    International, 2000. Using the digital microscope, ISBN 0-9543595-0-X. UK, Rothay House, 2002. Secret Weapons: Technology, Science and the Race to Win World...
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  • April 1585 he was invited to meet commissioners for building a bridge at Rothay. He declined, giving the excuse that he had a horse in a race at Langwathby...
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