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Buckholme Island, Blindcrake
Buckholme Island
site name:-   Derwent, River
civil parish:-   Blindcrake (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   island
coordinates:-   NY19483315 (etc) 
1Km square:-   NY1933
10Km square:-   NY13

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 46 15) 
placename:-  Buck 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 (Bas) 
placename:-  Buckholm Island
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, An Accurate Map of Broadwater or Bassenthwaite Lake, scale about 3 inches to 1 mile, by Peter Crosthwaite, Keswick, Cumberland, 1783, version published 1800.
image
CT6NY13W.jpg
"Buckholm I. / Sir F. F. Vane's Bart."
item:-  Armitt Library : 1959.191.4
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