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Bowmanstead, Coniston
Bowmanstead
civil parish:-   Coniston (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
locality type:-   locality
coordinates:-   SD30019684
1Km square:-   SD3096
10Km square:-   SD39


photograph
BWU01.jpg (taken 18.6.2012)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Lan 4 8) 
placename:-  Bowmanstead
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:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Bowanstead
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"BOWANSTEAD / / A 593 / CONISTON / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 76793 / SD3001096842"

hearsay:-  
There was a garrison of archers based here for the defence of Coniston Hall.

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