Old Cumbria Gazetteer

Grass Dike

runs into:-

Fresh Creek

civil parish:-

Burgh by Sands (formerly Cumberland)

civil parish:-

Bowness (formerly Cumberland)

county:-

Cumbria

locality type:-

river

locality type:-

boundary

locality type:-

parish boundary

coordinates:-

NY28056024

1Km square:-

NY2860

10Km square:-

NY26

evidence:-

old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 22 2)
placename:- Grass Dike

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:- Saxton 1579

source data:-

Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmorlandiae et Cumberlandiae Comitatus ie Westmorland and Cumberland, scale about 5 miles to 1 inch, by Christopher Saxton, London, engraved by Augustinus Ryther, 1576, published 1579-1645.

Sax9NY35.jpg
item:- private collection : 2
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-

old map:- Bowen and Kitchin 1760

source data:-

Map, hand coloured engraving, A New Map of the Counties of Cumberland and Westmoreland Divided into their Respective Wards, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Emanuel Bowen and Thomas Kitchin et al, published by T Bowles, Robert Sayer, and John Bowles, London, 1760.

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.

D4NY26SE.jpg
single or double wiggly line; a river from the marsh into the sea
item:- Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library

places:-

NY28395949 canal aqueduct, Burgh by Sands (Burgh by Sands / Bowness) L

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