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Cockshot Wood, Keswick
Cockshot Wood
locality:-   Cockshot Hill
civil parish:-   Keswick (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   wood
coordinates:-   NY26562269 (etc) 
1Km square:-   NY2622
10Km square:-   NY22
SummaryText:-   on a low hill
evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 64 6) 
placename:-  Cockshot Wood
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:-   descriptive text:- West 1778 (11th edn 1821) 
placename:-  Cockshut
source data:-   Guide book, A Guide to the Lakes, by Thomas West, published by William Pennington, Kendal, Cumbria once Westmorland, and in London, 1778 to 1821.
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Addendum; Mr Gray's Journal, 1769 
Page 203:-  "Oct. 3. [at Keswick] A heavenly day; rose at seven, and walked out under the conduct of my landlord to Borrowdale; ... Left Cockshut (which we formerly mounted) ... behind me, ..."
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Page 206:-  "..."
"Oct. 4. ... Cockshut-hill, which lies beside it [Crow Park], and to which I walked in the afternoon; it is covered with young"
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Page 207:-  "trees, both sown and planted, oak, spruce, Scotch fir, &c. all which thrive wonderfully. There is an easy ascent to the top, and the view far preferable to that on Castle-hill ..."
evidence:-   old map:- Crosthwaite 1783-94 (Der) 
placename:-  Cock Shot
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, An Accurate Map of the Matchless Lake of Derwent, ie Derwent Water, scale about 3 inches to 1 mile, by Peter Crosthwaite, Keswick, Cumberland, 1783, version published 1800.
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"Cock-shot / 2d. Station"
item:-  Armitt Library : 1959.191.3
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evidence:-   old map:- Clarke 1787 map (Der) 
placename:-  Cock Shott
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Map of Derwentwater and its Environs, scale about 13 ins to 1 mile, by James Clarke, engraved by S J Neele, published by James Clarke, Penrith, Cumberland and in London etc, 1787.
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"COCK SHOTT"
woodland 
item:-  private collection : 169
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