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| Beetham Park, Beetham | ||
| Beetham Park | ||
| locality:- | Beetham Hall | |
| civil parish:- | Beetham (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | park | |
| coordinates:- | SD49837884 (etc) | |
| 1Km square:- | SD4978 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD47 | |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 46 7)  placename:- Beetham Park  | 
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| 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. | 
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| evidence:- | old map:- Saxton 1579 | 
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| source data:- | Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmorlandiae et Cumberlandiae Comitatus ie Westmorland
                  and Cumberland, scale about 5 miles to 1 inch, by Christopher Saxton, London, engraved
                  by Augustinus Ryther, 1576, published 1579-1645.![]() Sax9SD48.jpg At Betham; fence palings, tree. item:- private collection : 2 Image © see bottom of page  | 
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| evidence:- | old map:- Speed 1611 (Wmd)  | 
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| source data:- | Map, hand coloured engraving, The Countie Westmorland and 
                  Kendale the Cheif Towne, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by 
                  John Speed, 1610, published by George Humble, Popes Head Alley, 
                  London, 1611-12.![]() SP14SD48.jpg ring of fence palings, trees, at Beetham item:- Armitt Library : 2008.14.5 Image © see bottom of page  | 
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| evidence:- | old map:- Jansson 1646 placename:- Bethan  | 
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| source data:- | Map, hand coloured engraving, Cumbria and Westmoria, ie 
                  Cumberland and Westmorland, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, by 
                  John Jansson, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1646.![]() JAN3SD47.jpg "Bethan" Ring of fence palings with trees. item:- JandMN : 88 Image © see bottom of page  | 
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| evidence:- | old map:- Morden 1695 (Wmd)  | 
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| source data:- | Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmorland, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by Robert
                  Morden, published by Abel Swale, the Unicorn, St Paul's Churchyard, Awnsham, and John
                  Churchill, the Black Swan, Paternoster Row, London, 1695.![]() MD10SD47.jpg Ring of fence palings, trees, by Betham. item:- JandMN : 24 Image © see bottom of page  | 
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| evidence:- | descriptive text:- Simpson 1746 placename:- Betham Park  | 
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| source data:- | Atlas, three volumes of maps and descriptive text published as 
                  'The Agreeable Historian, or the Compleat English Traveller 
                  ...', by Samuel Simpson, 1746.   goto sourcePage 1021:- "..." "In Betham-Park in the Barony of Kendal, is a petrifying Spring called the Dripping Well."  | 
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| evidence:- | old map:- Bowen and Kitchin 1760 | 
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| source data:- | Map, hand coloured engraving, A New Map of the Counties of 
                  Cumberland and Westmoreland Divided into their Respective Wards, 
                  scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Emanuel Bowen and Thomas 
                  Kitchin et al, published by T Bowles, Robert Sayer, and John 
                  Bowles, London, 1760.![]() BO18SD37.jpg outline of fence palings at Beetham item:- Armitt Library : 2008.14.10 Image © see bottom of page  | 
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