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| Maiden Holme, Windermere lake | ||
| Maiden Holme | ||
| site name:- | Windermere lake | |
| civil parish:- | Windermere (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | island | |
| coordinates:- | SD39099598 | |
| 1Km square:- | SD3995 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD39 | |
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 BPE48.jpg (taken 12.5.2008) |
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| Said to be the smallest island on the lake. |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 32 15) placename:- Maiden Holme |
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| 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. OS County Series (Lan 5 7) |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Clarke 1787 map (Windermere N) |
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| source data:- | Map, A Map of the Northern Part of the Lake Winandermere and its
Environs, scale about 6.5 ins to 1 mile, by James Clarke,
engraved by Samuel John Neele, 352 Strand, published by James
Clarke, Penrith, Cumberland and in London etc, 1787. CLASD39X.jpg item:- private collection : 10.10 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Prior 1874 map 1 placename:- Maiden Holme |
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| source data:- | Map, uncoloured engraving or lithograph? Winander Mere, scale
about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, published by John Garnett,
Windermere, Westmorland, 1874. click to enlargePI03M1.jpg "Maiden Holme" island item:- private collection : 133.1 Image © see bottom of page |
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