Old Cumbria Gazetteer - Biggar, Walney Island

Biggar, Walney Island

Biggar

locality:-

Walney Island

civil parish:-

Barrow-in-Furness (formerly Lancashire)

county:-

Cumbria

locality type:-

locality

locality type:-

buildings

coordinates:-

SD19216623 (etc)

1Km square:-

SD1966

10Km square:-

SD16

evidence:-

old map:- OS County Series (Lan 27 3)
placename:- Biggar

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 map:- West 1784 map
placename:- Bigger

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.

Ws02SD16.jpg
item:- Armitt Library : A1221.1
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-

old map:- Laurie and Whittle 1806
placename:- Bigger

source data:-

Road map, Completion of the Roads to the Lakes, scale about 10 miles to 1 inch, by Nathaniel Coltman? 1806, published by Robert H Laurie, 53 Fleet Street, London, 1834.

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Lw18.jpg
"Bigger"
village or other place
item:- private collection : 18.18
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-

old map:- Ford 1839 map
placename:- Bigger

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.