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Bardsea, Urswick
Bardsea
civil parish:-   Urswick (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   locality
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   SD30057458 (etc) 
1Km square:-   SD3074
10Km square:-   SD37


photograph
CCI70.jpg (taken 5.2.2015)  
photograph
BRD97.jpg  From Birkrigg Common.
(taken 31.7.2009)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Lan 16 12) 
placename:-  Bardsea
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:-   old text:- Camden 1789 (Gough Additions) 
source data:-   Book, Britannia, or A Chorographical Description of the Flourishing Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, by William Camden, 1586, translated from the 1607 Latin edition by Richard Gough, published London, 1789.
image CAM2P142, button  goto source
Page 142:-  "... and Bardsey the only village in it [Furness] that retains a British sound."

evidence:-   old map:- Otley 1818
placename:-  Bardsea
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, The District of the Lakes, Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Jonathan Otley, 1818, engraved by J and G Menzies, Edinburgh, Scotland, published by Jonathan Otley, Keswick, Cumberland, et al, 1833.
image
OT02SD27.jpg
item:-  JandMN : 48.1
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   old map:- Ford 1839 map
placename:-  Bardsea
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Map of the Lake District of Cumberland, Westmoreland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by Charles Thurnam, Carlisle, and by R Groombridge, 5 Paternoster Row, London, 3rd edn 1843.
image
FD02SD37.jpg
"Bardsea"
item:-  JandMN : 100.1
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   old map:- Garnett 1850s-60s H
placename:-  Bardsea
source data:-   Map of the English Lakes, in Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, 1850s-60s.
image
GAR2SD27.jpg
"Bardsea"
blocks, settlement 
item:-  JandMN : 82.1
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   old map:- Post Office 1850s-1900s
placename:-  Bardsea
source data:-   Post road maps, General Post Office Circulation Map for England and Wales, for the General Post Office, London, 1850s-1900s.
image  click to enlarge
POF7Cm.jpg
"Bardsea"
map date 1909 

evidence:-   old map:- Post Office 1850s-1900s
placename:-  Bardsea
source data:-   Post road maps, General Post Office Circulation Map for England and Wales, for the General Post Office, London, 1850s-1900s.
image  click to enlarge
PF10Cm.jpg
"Bardsea"
map date 1892 

evidence:-   old map:- Post Office 1850s-1900s
placename:-  Bardsea
source data:-   Post road maps, General Post Office Circulation Map for England and Wales, for the General Post Office, London, 1850s-1900s.
image  click to enlarge
POF2Cm.jpg
"Bardsea"
map date 1890 

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images courtesy of the British Postal Museum and Hampshire CC Museums

places:-  
SD29557450 Bardsea Green (Urswick)
SD30077480 Bardsea Hall (Urswick) gone
SD29737513 Bardsea Monument (Urswick) L
SD30027449 Braddyll's (Urswick)
SD30087461 building, Bardsea (Urswick)
SD30107454 Holy Trinity Church (Urswick) L
SD29707532 limekiln, Bardsea (Urswick)
SD29927453 Malt Kiln (Urswick)
SD30057462 Ship Inn (Urswick)
SD30067559 tower, Bardsea (Ulverston)
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