Old Cumbria Gazetteer

Combe Gill

runs into:-

Derwent, River

Combe Ghyll

locality:-

Combe, The

civil parish:-

Borrowdale (formerly Cumberland)

county:-

Cumbria

locality type:-

river

locality type:-

valley

1Km square:-

NY2512 (etc)

10Km square:-

NY21

BTO88.jpg (taken 22.9.2010)
photograph

BTO89.jpg Waterfall,
(taken 22.9.2010)

evidence:-

old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 70 13)
placename:- Comb Gill

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:- Donald 1774 (Cmd)

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.

D4NY21SW.jpg
single or double wiggly line; a river
item:- Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library

evidence:-

old print:- Green 1809
placename:- Coom Gill
item:- water wheel

source data:-

Print, soft ground etching, Mill in Borrowdale, now Old Mill Cottage on Combe Gill, Borrowdale, Cumberland, by William Green, published by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, and Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, Paternoster Row, London, 1809.

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GN0370.jpg
Plate 70 in Seventy Eight Studies from Nature.
printed in introductory pages to set of prints:- "Number 70. Coom Gill, on which this building is situated, is engulphed in fantastic scenery; a water-spout in prodigious volume fell many years ago on the mountain above, tumbling about rocks and trees in the wildest confusion, as may be seen by those who wish to visit Coom Gill. There is an interesting water-fall about half a mile above the Mill, which is two miles from Rosthwaite, and eight from Keswick."
printed at bottom:- "MILL IN BORROWDALE. / Published Ambleside, Augst. 1st. 1809, by W. Green."
item:- Armitt Library : A6637.70
Image © see bottom of page