Gents Mag 1849 part 2 p.450

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	Gentleman's Magazine 1849 part 2 p.450
placename   Westmorland
	Placenames, Westmorland M. C. requests us to mention the authority on which one of our northern counties is written Westmerland. In answer, we beg to say that the county derives the etymology of its name decidedly from its being the "land of the western meres," - not the moors, as the modern mode of writing it seems to have suggested. In no old authority, either written or printed, will the name be found spelled otherwise than Westmerland.
	gazetteer links
	-- "Westmerland" -- Westmorland

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