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Holme Island, Grange-over-Sands
Holme Island
locality:-   Kent Estuary
locality:-   Morecambe Bay
civil parish:-   Grange-over-Sands (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   island
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   SD422782
1Km square:-   SD4278
10Km square:-   SD47

photograph
BLM94.jpg  From Grange-over-Sands Station.
(taken 31.12.2005)  
photograph
BUD52.jpg  Gate.
(taken 4.3.2011)  
evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Lan 18 1) 
placename:-  Holme Island
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:- Ford 1839 map
placename:-  Holm
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.
image
FD02SD47.jpg
"Holm"
Island. 
item:-  JandMN : 100.1
Image © see bottom of page
evidence:-   old print:- Philip/Wilson 1890s
source data:-   Print, engraving, Grange and Holme Island, published by George Philip and Son, London, Philip, Son and Nephew, Liverpool, Lancashire, and Titus Wilson, Kendal, Westmorland, about 1895.
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PW1E02.jpg
"GRANGE AND HOLME ISLAND."
item:-  JandMN : 58.3
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evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Holme Island Lodge
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"HOLME ISLAND LODGE / / MEATHOP ROAD / GRANGE OVER SANDS / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 460547 / SD4252979047"
evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"GARDEN TEMPLE AT HOLME ISLAND HOUSE TO SOUTH OF HOUSE INCLUDING ATTACHED BRIDGE / / MEATHOP ROAD / GRANGE OVER SANDS / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 460546 / SD4220878052"
evidence:-   old print:- 
source data:-   Print, uncoloured engraving, Grange-over-Sands, Lancashire, published 1900s?
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PR0325.jpg
On page 169 of Our Own Country. Holme Island and Lancaster Sands in the background. 
printed at bottom:-  "GRANGE-OVER-SANDS."
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2008.107.325
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evidence:-   old print:- 
placename:-  Holme Island
source data:-   Print, uncoloured engraving, Holme Island, Morecambe Bay, Lancashire, engraved by W J Welch, published 1870.
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PR0220.jpg
On a page of Furness, Past and Present. 
printed at lower left:-  "W. J. WELCH. Sc."
printed at bottom:-  "HOLME ISLAND, MORECAMBE BAY."
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2008.107.220
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evidence:-   old print:- Waugh 1860
placename:-  Holme Island
source data:-   Print, engraving, Temple on Holme Island, Grange-over-Sands, Lancashire, drawn by T H Wilson, published by Alexander Ireland and Co, 22 Market Street, Manchester, 1860.
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WU0103.jpg
On p.13 of Over Sands to the Lakes, by Edwin Waugh. 
printed at bottom left:-  "THW"
printed at bottom:-  "TEMPLE ON HOLME ISLAND."
item:-  Armitt Library : A1082.3
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evidence:-   old print:- 
placename:-  Holme Island
source data:-   Print, coloured lithograph, Holme Island, Grange-over-Sands, Lancashire, engraved by J McGahey, from a photograph by Pettitt, printed by J Richardson, Barrow-in-Furness, 1807?
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PR0061.jpg
printed at bottom left, right, centre:-  "Drawn on Stone by Jno. McGahey / From a Photograph by Pettitt / &Printed by J Richardson, Barrow in Furness / HOLME ISLAND, THE MARINE RESIDENCE OF A. BROGDEN, ESQ., M.P."
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2008.107.61
Image © see bottom of page
hearsay:-  
 The hunting lodge was built in the 1830s.
Bought by John Brogden, founder of the UIverstone and Lancaster Railway, who lived there from 1857 to 1880s.
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