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Chapel Island, Morecambe Bay
Chapel Island
locality:-   Morecambe Bay
civil parish:-   Lower Allithwaite (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   island
coordinates:-   SD32127587 (etc) 
1Km square:-   SD3275
10Km square:-   SD37


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BPO55.jpg (taken 8.8.2008)  
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BWV52.jpg (taken 13.7.2012)  

evidence:-   old map:- West 1784 map
placename:-  Chapel Isle
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.
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Ws02SD37.jpg
item:-  Armitt Library : A1221.1
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evidence:-   old map:- Otley 1818
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.
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OT02SD37.jpg
item:-  JandMN : 48.1
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evidence:-   old map:- Ford 1839 map
placename:-  Chapel Island
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.
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FD02SD37.jpg
"Chapel I."
Island. 
item:-  JandMN : 100.1
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