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Grune Point, Silloth-on-Solway
Grune Point
locality:-   Solway Firth
locality:-   Moricambe
civil parish:-   Silloth-on-Solway (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   headland
coordinates:-   NY14335690 (etc) 
1Km square:-   NY1456
10Km square:-   NY15

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 21 1) 
placename:-  Grune Point
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 text:- Gents Mag
placename:-  Grune, The
source data:-   Magazine, The Gentleman's Magazine or Monthly Intelligencer or Historical Chronicle, published by Edward Cave under the pseudonym Sylvanus Urban, and by other publishers, London, monthly from 1731 to 1922.
image G7480291, button  goto source
Gentleman's Magazine 1748 p.291 
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"The Grune is a remarkable head of land, whose position the common maps have widely mistaken. It is now only a rabbet warren, and hardly any vestige left where an ancient chapel stood, called the chapel of the Grune; the whole is a low beachy coast. The Dutch would make a gainful acquisition by diking of this bay, was it in Holland, for the tide recedes so far as one may pass it in any place for several hours together."

evidence:-   old map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd) 
placename:-  Grune Point
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.
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"Grune Point"
headland 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library

evidence:-   old map:- Ford 1839 map
placename:-  Grune Point
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Map of the Lake District of Cumberland, Westmoreland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by Charles Thurnam, Carlisle, and by R Groombridge, 5 Paternoster Row, London, 3rd edn 1843.
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"Grune Pt."
item:-  JandMN : 100.1
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   old map:- Garnett 1850s-60s H
placename:-  Grune Point
source data:-   Map of the English Lakes, in Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, 1850s-60s.
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"Grune pt."
headland 
item:-  JandMN : 82.1
Image © see bottom of page

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