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Lodore, Borrowdale
Lodore
Lowdore
civil parish:-   Borrowdale (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   locality
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   NY26391889 (etc) 
1Km square:-   NY2618
10Km square:-   NY21

evidence:-   old map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd) 
placename:-  Low Door
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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"Low Door"
block or blocks, labelled in lowercase; a hamlet or just a house 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library

evidence:-   old map:- Cooke 1802
placename:-  Low Dere
source data:-   Map, The Lakes, Westmorland and Cumberland, scale about 8.5 miles to 1 inch, engravedby Neele and Son, published by Sherwood, Jones and Co, Paternoster Road, London, 1824.
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"Low Dere"
blocks, italic lowercase text, village, hamlet, locality 
item:-  Hampshire Museums : FA2000.62.5
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evidence:-   old map:- Otley 1818
placename:-  Lowdore
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, The District of the Lakes, Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Jonathan Otley, 1818, engraved by J and G Menzies, Edinburgh, Scotland, published by Jonathan Otley, Keswick, Cumberland, et al, 1833.
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item:-  JandMN : 48.1
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evidence:-   :- Hullmandel 1826
source data:-   image  click to enlarge
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Print, uncoloured lithograph, The Fall of Lodore, from Derwent Water, Borrowdale, Cumberland, drawn by Miss I Cropper and Miss S Atkins, published by Charles Hullmandel, London, 1826.  "Drawn on Stone by I.C & S.A. / Printed by C. Hullmandel. / THE FALL OF LODORE. / FROM DERWENT WATER."
item:-  
Armitt Library : ALMA370.7
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evidence:-   old map:- Ford 1839 map
placename:-  Low Dore
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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"Low Dore"
item:-  JandMN : 100.1
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evidence:-   old drawing:- Aspland 1840s-60s
placename:-  Lowdore
source data:-   Drawing, pencil, Lowdore, Borrowdale, Cumberland, by Theophilus Lindsey Aspland, 12 May 1853.
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"Lowdore / May 12 & 14. 1853"
"see p 42. Book 12."
page number  "61"
item:-  Armitt Library : 1958.390.77
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evidence:-   old map:- Garnett 1850s-60s H
placename:-  Lowdore
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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"Lowdore"
block, building 
item:-  JandMN : 82.1
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evidence:-   outline view:- Martineau 1855
placename:-  Lowdore
source data:-   Print, engraving, outline view, Mountains seen from Applethwaite near Keswick, drawn by L Aspland, engraved by W Banks, Edinburgh, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, and by Whittaker and Co, London, 1855.
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Folded in opposite p.93 in A Complete Guide to the English Lakes, by Harriet Martineau.  "MOUNTAINS SEEN FROM APPLETHWAITE NEAR KESWICK."
"L Aspland Delt. / W Banks Sc Edinr."
The view is captioned, numbers referring to mountains in the image:-  "1 Wallow Crag, 2 Falcon Crag, 3 Shepherd's Crag / Lowdore below, 4 Glaramara, 5 Brund, 6 Castle Crag, 7 Great End, 8 Scawfell Pike, 9 Catbell, 10, High Stile, 11 Red Pike, 12 Grasmoor, 13 Causey Pike, 14 Melbreak, 15 Grisdale Pike"
item:-  Armitt Library : A1159.14
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evidence:-   old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s
source data:-   Photograph, b/w, Derwent Water and Lodore, Borrowdale, Cumberland, by Herbert Bell, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s?
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item:-  Armitt Library : ALPS645
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evidence:-   outline view:- Jenkinson 1875
placename:-  Lodore
source data:-   Print, lithograph, outline view, Panoramic Sketches from Skiddaw, Cumberland, by Edwin A Pettitt, London, published by Edward Stanford, 55 Charing Cross, London, 1875.
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"... Lodore ..."
item:-  JandMN : 28.8
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places:-  
NY26581866 Gowder Crag (Borrowdale)
NY26781911 High Crag (Borrowdale)
NY26191832 High Lodore (Borrowdale) L
NY26701856 Hogs Earth (Borrowdale)
NY26341830 Ladder Brow (Borrowdale)
NY26461896 Lodore Bridge (Borrowdale)
NY26701898 Lodore Wood (Borrowdale)
NY26841954 Low Crag (Borrowdale)
NY26581915 Mary Mount (Borrowdale)
NY26061827 Newton Place (Borrowdale)
NY26881915 Screes Coppice (Borrowdale)
NY26331854 Shepherds Crag (Borrowdale)
NY2618 quarry, Borrowdale (5) (Borrowdale)
NY26101821 Borrowdale Hotel (Borrowdale)
NY26511873 Lodore Falls (Borrowdale)
NY264188 Lodore Hotel (Borrowdale)
NY26041818 guide stone, Lodore (Borrowdale)
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