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Low Bank Ground, Coniston
Low Bank Ground
Bank Ground
Bank Ground Farm
locality:-   Bank Ground
civil parish:-   Coniston (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   SD31599694
1Km square:-   SD3196
10Km square:-   SD39

photograph
BLZ64.jpg (taken 28.4.2006)  
evidence:-   possibly old map:- Otley 1818
placename:-  Bank
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.
image
OT02SD39.jpg
item:-  JandMN : 48.1
Image © see bottom of page
evidence:-   old map:- Greenwood 1824
placename:-  Town End
source data:-   Maps, Map of the County of Westmorland, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, and Map of the County of Cumberland, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, etc, by C and J Greenwood, published by George Pringle jnr, 70 Queen Street, Cheapside, London, 1823 and 1824 respectively.
"Town End"
evidence:-   probably old map:- Ford 1839 map
placename:-  Townsend
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
FD02SD39.jpg
"Townsend"
item:-  JandMN : 100.1
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evidence:-   possibly old map:- Garnett 1850s-60s H
placename:-  Coniston Bank
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.
image
GAR2SD39.jpg
"Coniston Bank"
block, building 
item:-  JandMN : 82.1
Image © see bottom of page
hearsay:-  
 Referred to as Holly Howe by Arthur Ransome.
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