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Longmire, Troutbeck
Longmire
Longmire House
locality:-   Applethwaite
locality:-   Troutbeck
civil parish:-   Windermere (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   NY41340197
1Km square:-   NY4101
10Km square:-   NY40


photograph
BZS59.jpg (taken 4.12.2013)  
Spinning gallery to the rear, with turned balusters.

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 26 16) 
placename:-  Longmire
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:-  Long Mire
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.
image
J5NY40SW.jpg
"Long Mire"
circle, labelled in italic lowercase text; settlement, farm, house, or hamlet? 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland

evidence:-   old map:- Cary 1789 (edn 1805) 
placename:-  Long Mire
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Westmoreland, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Cary, London, 1789; edition 1805.
image
CY24NY40.jpg
"Long Mire"
block/s, labelled in italic lowercase; house, or hamlet 
item:-  JandMN : 129
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   old map:- Ford 1839 map
placename:-  Long Mire
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
FD02NY40.jpg
"Long Mire"
item:-  JandMN : 100.1
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s
placename:-  Longmire, The
item:-  spinning gallerygallerychimney
source data:-   Photograph, The Longmire, Applethwaite, Windermere, Westmorland, by Herbert Bell, photographer, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1897.
image  click to enlarge
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Vol.2 no.174 in an album, Examples of Early Domestic and Military Architecture in Westmorland, assembled 1910. 
ms at bottom:-  "174. The Longmire. (Applethwaite). Windermere. K."
item:-  Armitt Library : 1958.3166.68
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Longmire
item:-  spinning gallerygallery
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"LONGMIRE / / / WINDERMERE TOWN / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II[star] / 351712 / NY4140401935"

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