Old Cumbria Gazetteer |
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| Cove o' Kend, Walney Island | ||
| Cove o' Kend | ||
| Cofe Hook End | ||
| locality:- | Walney Island | |
| civil parish:- | Barrow-in-Furness (formerly Lancashire) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| coordinates:- | SD194666 (etc) | |
| 1Km square:- | SD1966 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD16 | |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Lan 21 15) placename:- Cove o' Kend |
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| 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. |
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| hearsay:- |
It is said that the Ordnance Survey misheard the local name of this place, Cofe Hook
End and recorded it as Cove o'Kend. This sort of mistake is not an uncommon occurence,
particularly in Scotland where Gaelic placenames have been horribly mangled by southron
surveyors. |
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