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High Wray, Claife
High Wray
civil parish:-   Claife (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
locality type:-   locality
coordinates:-   SD37289995 (etc) 
1Km square:-   SD3799
10Km square:-   SD39
evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Lan 2 15) 
placename:-  High Wray
placename:-  Wray, High
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:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd) 
placename:-  High Wrays
placename:-  Wrays, High
source data:-   Map, 4 sheets, The County of Westmoreland, scale 1 inch to 1 mile, surveyed 1768, and engraved and published by Thomas Jefferys, London, 1770.
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"High Wrays"
circle, labelled in italic lowercase text; settlement, farm, house, or hamlet? 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
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evidence:-   old map:- Crosthwaite 1783-94 (Win/Ble) 
placename:-  High Wray
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, An Accurate Map of the Grand Lake of Windermere, scale about 2 inches to 1 mile, by Peter Crosthwaite, Keswick, Cumberland, 1783, version published 1819.
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"High Wray"
circle and buildings, town or village 
item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.14.102
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evidence:-   old text:- Clarke 1787
placename:-  High Wray
source data:-   Guide book, A Survey of the Lakes of Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire, written and published by James Clarke, Penrith, Cumberland, and in London etc, 1787; published 1787-93.
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Page 146:-  "... In the church-yard [Hawkshead] is a stone with the following inscription upon it:"
"In memory of Banks Robinson, late of High-Wray, who departed this life 17th October 1782, in the 85th year of his age:"
"Also Agness his wife, Who departed this life 23d June 1763, in the 55th year of her age."
"In testimony of a dutiful regard for the best of parents, this stone was erected by their three children, John, Banks, and Ann."
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Page 147:-  ""Qui ont abandonne leur pays pour gagner leur pain avec industrie, mais imprimes d'une vive reconnaissance retient un penchant pour le place de leur naissance."
"In English,"
""Who have abandoned their country to get their bread with industry, but impressed with lively gratitude, they retain yet a regard for the place of their nativity.""
evidence:-   old map:- Clarke 1787 map (Windermere N) 
placename:-  High Wray
source data:-   Map, A Map of the Northern Part of the Lake Winandermere and its Environs, scale about 6.5 ins to 1 mile, by James Clarke, engraved by Samuel John Neele, 352 Strand, published by James Clarke, Penrith, Cumberland and in London etc, 1787.
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"High-wray"
item:-  private collection : 10.10
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evidence:-   probably old text:- Green 1810
placename:-  High Kay
placename:-  Kay, High
source data:-   Set of prints, soft ground etchings, Sixty Studies from Nature, by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, drawn 1808-10, published 1810.
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page 13:-  "... on the Lancashire side [of Windermere lake] are High and Low Kay."
evidence:-   old map:- Ford 1839 map
placename:-  High Wray
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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"Hh. Wray"
item:-  JandMN : 100.1
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evidence:-   old map:- Garnett 1850s-60s H
placename:-  Wray
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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"Wray"
blocks, settlement 
item:-  JandMN : 82.1
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evidence:-   old map:- Prior 1874 map 1
placename:-  High Wray
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving or lithograph? Winander Mere, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, 1874.
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"High Wray"
block/s; building/s 
item:-  private collection : 133.1
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evidence:-   old map:- Post Office 1850s-1900s
placename:-  High Wray
source data:-   Post road maps, General Post Office Circulation Map for England and Wales, for the General Post Office, London, 1850s-1900s.
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"High Wray"
map date 1909 
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 images courtesy of the British Postal Museum and Hampshire CC Museums
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