Old Cumbria Gazetteer

Blindcrake

civil parish:-

Blindcrake (formerly Cumberland)

county:-

Cumbria

locality type:-

locality

locality type:-

buildings

coordinates:-

NY14813473 (etc)

1Km square:-

NY1434

10Km square:-

NY13

evidence:-

old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 46 9)
placename:- Blindcrake

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:- Saxton 1579
placename:- Blencrake

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.

Sax9NY13.jpg
Church, symbol for a parish or village, with a parish church. "Blencrake"
item:- private collection : 2
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-

probably old map:- Mercator 1595 (edn?)
placename:- Blerake Castle

source data:-

Map, hand coloured engraving, Northumbria, Cumberlandia, et Dunelmensis Episcopatus, ie Northumberland, Cumberland and Durham etc, scale about 6.5 miles to 1 inch, by Gerard Mercator, Duisberg, Germany, about 1595.

MER8CumB.jpg
"Blerake ca."
circle, building and tower
item:- JandMN : 169
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-

old map:- Keer 1605
placename:- Blencrake

source data:-

Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmorland and Cumberland, scale about 16 miles to 1 inch, probably by Pieter van den Keere, or Peter Keer, about 1605 edition perhaps 1676.

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KER8.jpg
"Blencrake"
dot, circle and tower; village
item:- Dove Cottage : 2007.38.110
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-

old map:- Speed 1611 (Cum/EW)
placename:- Blencrake

source data:-

Map, hand coloured engraving, Kingdome of Great Britaine and Ireland, scale about 36 miles to 1 inch, by John Speed, about 1610-11, published by Thomas Bassett, Fleet Street and Richard Chiswell, St Paul's Churchyard, London, 1676?

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SPD6Cm.jpg
"Blencrake"
dot, circle, and tower
item:- private collection : 85
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evidence:-

old map:- Speed 1611 (Cmd)
placename:- Blenerak

source data:-

Map, hand coloured engraving, Cumberland and the Ancient Citie Carlile Described, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by John Speed, 1610, published by J Sudbury and George Humble, Popes Head Alley, London, 1611-12.

SP11NY13.jpg
"Blenerak"
circle, tower
item:- private collection : 16
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-

old map:- Jenner 1643
placename:- Blenrak

source data:-

Tables of distances with a maps, Westmerland, scale about 16 miles to 1 inch, and Cumberland, scale about 21 miles to 1 inch, published by Thomas Jenner, London, 1643; published 1643-80.

JEN4Sq.jpg
"Blenrak"
circle

evidence:-

old map:- Jansson 1646
placename:- Blencrak

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.

JAN3NY13.jpg
"Blencrak"
Buildings and tower.
item:- JandMN : 88
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-

old map:- Sanson 1679
placename:- Blenerock

source data:-

Map, hand coloured engraving, Ancien Royaume de Northumberland aujourdhuy Provinces de Nort, ie the Ancient Kingdom of Northumberland or the Northern Provinces, scale about 9.5 miles to 1 inch, by Nicholas Sanson, Paris, France, 1679.

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SAN2Cm.jpg
"Blenerock"
circle, building and tower, flag; town?
item:- Dove Cottage : 2007.38.15
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-

old map:- Bowen and Kitchin 1760
placename:- Blencragg

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.

BO18NY13.jpg
"Blencragg"
circle, tower
item:- Armitt Library : 2008.14.10
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-

old map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd)
placename:- Blincrake

source data:-

Map, hand coloured engraving, 3x2 sheets, The County of Cumberland, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, by Thomas Donald, engraved and published by Joseph Hodskinson, 29 Arundel Street, Strand, London, 1774.

D4NY13NE.jpg
"Blincrake"
block or blocks, labelled in lowercase; a hamlet or just a house
item:- Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library

evidence:-

old map:- Otley 1818
placename:- Blindcrake

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.

BSL12.jpg house,
(taken 4.4.2010)

hearsay:-

There was a local custom of burying horses within the village, at the south east corner of the locality. For example see a gravestone:-

"Marmaduke 1900"

the horse of Rev W A Sharpe, vicar of Isel.

The village used to have a pond, Mortar Dub, on the village green, used for watering stock, washing horses after ploughing, and so on. The pond was blamed for fevers in the village and it was drained by Cockermouth RDC about 1900: the fevers stopped.

There is/was a plaque on Easter Cottage, inscribed:-

"As birds drink, and straight lift up their head, / So must man, sip and think, of better drink, / He may attain to, after he is dead."

refering to the village pump.

Adam Slee, who died in his 80s 1988, lived in a caravan behind Woodlands. He painted, the house walls were painted with trees and flowers etc,

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