Old Cumbria Gazetteer - Fisherplace Gill

Fisherplace Gill

runs into:-

How Beck

civil parish:-

St John's Castlerigg and Wythburn (formerly Cumberland)

county:-

Cumbria

locality type:-

river

1Km square:-

NY3218

10Km square:-

NY31

BLT64.jpg (taken 3.4.2006)
photograph

BYJ36.jpg (taken 22.5.2013)

evidence:-

old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 70 4)
placename:- Fisherplace 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:- Ogilby 1675 (plate 96)

source data:-

Road strip map, hand coloured engraving, the Road from Kendal to Cockermouth, and the Road from Egremond to Carlisle, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, by John Ogilby, London, 1675.

OG96m020.jpg
In mile 24, Cumberland. "a Rill"
drawn across the road.
item:- JandMN : 22
Image © see bottom of page

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.

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.

BYJ35.jpg (taken 22.5.2013)

places:-

NY321183 waterfall, Fisherplace Gill (St John's Castlerigg and Wythburn)

NY31721854 bridge, Fisher Place (St John's Castlerigg and Wythburn)

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