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Hugh Seat, Mallerstang
Hugh Seat
Morvil Hill
civil parish:-   Mallerstang (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   hill
coordinates:-   SD80919910
1Km square:-   SD8099
10Km square:-   SD89
altitude:-   2257 feet
altitude:-   688m
county:-   North Yorkshire
current boundary
locality:-   Cumbria boundary
evidence:-   old map:- Saxton 1579
placename:-  Huseat Morvell Hill
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.
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"Huseat morvell hill"
Large hillock. 
item:-  private collection : 2
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evidence:-   old map:- Speed 1611 (Wmd) 
placename:-  Huseat Morvell hill
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, The Countie Westmorland and Kendale the Cheif Towne, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Speed, 1610, published by George Humble, Popes Head Alley, London, 1611-12.
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"Huseat Morvell hill"
hillock 
item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.14.5
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evidence:-   poem:- Drayton 1612/1622 text
placename:-  Husseat-Morvill
source data:-   Poem, Poly Olbion, by Michael Drayton, published by published by John Marriott, John Grismand and Thomas Dewe, and others? London, part 1 1612, part 2 1622.
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page 162:-  "...
... Eden, issuing out of Husseat-Morvill Hill,
And pointing to the North, as then a little Rill,
There simply takes her leave of her sweet sister Swale,
Borne to the selfe same Sire, but with a stronger gale,
Tow'rds the Humber hyes her course, ..."
evidence:-   old map:- Drayton 1612/1622
placename:-  Morvell Hill
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Cumberlande and Westmorlande, by Michael Drayton, probably engraved by William Hole, scale about 4 or 5 miles to 1 inch, published by John Mariott, John Grismand, and Thomas Dewe, London, 1622.
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"Morvell hill"
Hillock with a gentleman sitting on top. 
item:-  JandMN : 168
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evidence:-   old map:- Jansson 1646
placename:-  Huseat Morvell Hill
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Cumbria and Westmoria, ie Cumberland and Westmorland, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Jansson, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1646.
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"Huseat Morvell Hill"
Hillock, near the county boundary. 
item:-  JandMN : 88
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evidence:-   old map:- Morden 1695 (Wmd) 
placename:-  Hughs Head
placename:-  Mowill Hill
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmorland, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by Robert Morden, published by Abel Swale, the Unicorn, St Paul's Churchyard, Awnsham, and John Churchill, the Black Swan, Paternoster Row, London, 1695.
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"Hughs Head"
"Mowill hill"
Hillock; the two labels copied from earlier maps have become separated. 
item:-  JandMN : 24
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evidence:-   descriptive text:- Simpson 1746
placename:-  Hugh Seat Morville
placename:-  Hugh Morvill's Hill
source data:-   Atlas, three volumes of maps and descriptive text published as 'The Agreeable Historian, or the Compleat English Traveller ...', by Samuel Simpson, 1746.
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Page 1020:-  "..."
"... the Eden, ... rises at a Place called Hugh Seat Morville, or Hugh Morvill's Hill, ..."
evidence:-   old map:- Simpson 1746 map (Wmd) 
placename:-  Hutton Morvel Hill
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Westmorland, scale about 8 miles to 1 inch, printed by R Walker, Fleet Lane, London, 1746.
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"Hutton Morvel Hill"
Hillock, on the boundary with Yorkshire, West and North Ridings. 
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2007.38.59
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evidence:-   old text:- Gents Mag
placename:-  Hughstat
placename:-  Hutton Morvel
item:-  map
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.
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Gentleman's Magazine 1754 p.230  "... the river Eden, which takes its rise from Hughstat mountain, about six miles higher up, on the skirts of Yorkshire, near the sources of the Swale and the Rother. This mountain is falsely called Hutton Morvel in most maps, and indeed, none of these desolate places have been laid down with any tolerable degree of exactness."
evidence:-   old map:- Bowen and Kitchin 1760
placename:-  Hugh Marvil Head
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.
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"Hugh Marvil Head"
hill hachuring, on county boundary Westmorland Yorkshire 
item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.14.10
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evidence:-   old map:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd) 
placename:-  Hughs Seat
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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"HUGHS SEAT"
hill hachuring; hill or mountain, on county boundary 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
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evidence:-   old text:- Camden 1789 (Gough Additions) 
placename:-  Morvill Hugh Seat
placename:-  Hugh Morvill's Hill
source data:-   Book, Britannia, or A Chorographical Description of the Flourishing Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, by William Camden, 1586, translated from the 1607 Latin edition by Richard Gough, published London, 1789.
Page 156:-  "..."
"The river Eden rises in this county at Morvill Hugh-seat or Hugh Morvill's hill from one of that name lord of Westmorland. This is a large round hill, where Anne countess of Pembroke erected a stone pillar ..."
evidence:-   old map:- Ford 1839 map
placename:-  Hugh Seat
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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"Hugh Seat"
Hill hachuring. 
item:-  JandMN : 100.1
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hearsay:-  
 Named after Sir Hugh de Morville, one of the four knights who murdered Thomas a Becket, 1170.
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