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Blake Holme, Windermere lake
Blake Holme
site name:-   Windermere lake
civil parish:-   Cartmel Fell (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   island
coordinates:-   SD38248982
1Km square:-   SD3889
10Km square:-   SD38


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BYE46.jpg (taken 12.4.2013)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 37 14) 
placename:-  Blake Holme
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:- Crosthwaite 1783-94 (Win/Ble) 
placename:-  Blake Holm
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, An Accurate Map of the Grand Lake of Windermere, scale about 2 inches to 1 mile, by Peter Crosthwaite, Keswick, Cumberland, 1783, version published 1819.
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CT9SD38U.jpg
"Blake holm Isld."
island 
item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.14.102
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   old map:- Clarke 1787 map (Windermere S) 
placename:-  Blake Holm
source data:-   Map, A Map of the Southern Part of the Lake Winandermere and its Environs, scale about 6.5 ins to 1 mile, by James Clarke, engraved by Samuel John Neele, 352 Strand, published by James Clarke, Penrith, Cumberland and in London etc, 1787.
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"Blake holm"
item:-  private collection : 10.11
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evidence:-   old map:- Prior 1874 map 1
placename:-  Blake Holme
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving or lithograph? Winander Mere, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, 1874.
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PI03M1.jpg
"Blake H."
island 
item:-  private collection : 133.1
Image © see bottom of page

hearsay:-  
Referred to as Wild Cat Island by Arthur Ransome.

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