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Waterhead, Coniston
Waterhead
locality:-   Water Head
civil parish:-   Coniston (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   locality
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   SD31019753 (etc) 
1Km square:-   SD3197
10Km square:-   SD39

evidence:-   old map:- West 1784 map
placename:-  Waterhead
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, A Map of the Lakes in Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, engraved by Paas, 53 Holborn, London, about 1784.
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item:-  Armitt Library : A1221.1
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evidence:-   old print:- Green 1814 (plate 3) 
placename:-  Water Head
source data:-   Print, tinted soft ground etching, Scene near Coniston Water Head, Coniston, Lancashire, by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1814.
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Plate 3 in Sixty Small Prints. 
printed at top right:-  "3"
printed at bottom:-  "SCENE NEAR CONISTON WATER HEAD. / Published at Ambleside Augst. 1, 1814, by Wm. Green."
item:-  Armitt Library : A6653.3
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evidence:-   old print:- Green 1814 (plate 3) 
placename:-  Water Head
source data:-   Print, uncoloured soft ground etching, Scene near Coniston Water Head, Coniston, Lancashire, by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1814.
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Plate 3 in Sixty Small Prints. 
printed at top right:-  "3"
printed at bottom:-  "SCENE NEAR CONISTON WATER HEAD. / Published at Ambleside Augst. 1, 1814, by Wm. Green."
item:-  Armitt Library : A6656.3
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   old text:- Green 1814
placename:-  Waterhead
source data:-   Set of prints, soft ground etchings, Sixty Small Prints, with text, A Description of a Series of Sixty Small Prints, by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1814.
image GN09p05, button  goto source
page 5:-  "... the mansion house called Waterhead, the property of Michael Knott, Esq. ..."

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