Old Cumbria Gazetteer

Blawith

civil parish:-

Blawith and Subberthwaite (formerly Lancashire)

county:-

Cumbria

locality type:-

locality

locality type:-

buildings

coordinates:-

SD288883

1Km square:-

SD2888

10Km square:-

SD28

BUI73.jpg Roadsign.
(taken 19.4.2011)

evidence:-

old map:- OS County Series (Lan 7 11)
placename:- Blawith

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:- Mercator 1595 (edn?)
placename:- Blowith Chapelry

source data:-

Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmorlandia, Lancastria, Cestria etc, ie Westmorland, Lancashire, Cheshire etc, scale about 10.5 miles to 1 inch, by Gerard Mercator, Duisberg, Germany, 1595, edition 1613-16.

MER5LanA.jpg
"Blowith chap."
circle
item:- Armitt Library : 2008.14.3
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-

old map:- Crosthwaite 1783-94 (Con)
placename:- Blauth

source data:-

Map, uncoloured engraving, An Accurate Map of Coniston Lake, scale about 3 inches to 1 mile, by Peter Crosthwaite, Keswick, Cumberland, 1788, version published 1809.

CTESD28Z.jpg
"Blauth Hamlet"
not marked
item:- JandMN : 182.5
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-

old map:- West 1784 map
placename:- Blawith

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.

Ws02SD28.jpg
item:- Armitt Library : A1221.1
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-

old map:- Otley 1818
placename:- Blawith

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.

OT02SD28.jpg
"BLAWITH"
item:- JandMN : 48.1
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-

old map:- Ford 1839 map
placename:- Blawith

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.

FD02SD28.jpg
"Blawith"
item:- JandMN : 100.1
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-

old map:- Garnett 1850s-60s H
placename:- Blawith

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.