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Mallerstang Forest, Mallerstang
Mallerstang Forest
locality:-   Mallerstang
civil parish:-   Mallerstang (formerly Westmorland)
civil parish:-   Ravenstonedale (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   forest
10Km square:-   NY70 (?) 
10Km square:-   SD79 (?) 
1Km square:-   NY7000
10Km square:-   NY70
10Km square:-   SD79
SummaryText:-   Perhaps now Mallerstang Common?
evidence:-   old map:- Saxton 1579
placename:-  Mallestange Forest
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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"Mallestange forest"
No trees. 
item:-  private collection : 2
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evidence:-   perhaps old map:- Speed 1611 (Cum/EW) 
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Kingdome of Great Britaine and Ireland, scale about 36 miles to 1 inch, by John Speed, about 1610-11, published by Thomas Bassett, Fleet Street and Richard Chiswell, St Paul's Churchyard, London, 1676?
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a tree 
item:-  private collection : 85
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evidence:-   old map:- Speed 1611 (Wmd) 
placename:-  Mallerstang Forest
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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"Mallerstang Forest"
group of tree symbols, north of a range of hillocks 
item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.14.5
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evidence:-   poem:- Drayton 1612/1622 text
placename:-  Malerstrang
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 making on,
Through Malerstrang hard by, a Forrest woe begone
In love with Edens eyes, of the cleere Naiades kind,
Whom thus the Wood-Nymph greets: What passage thou shalt find,
My most beloved Brook, in making to thy Bay,
That wandring art to wend through many a crooked way,
Farre under hanging Hills, through many a cragged strait,
And few the watry kind, upon thee to await,
Opposed in thy course with many a rugged Cliffe,
Besides the Northern winds against thy stream to stiffe,
As by maine strength they meant to stop thee in thy course,
And send the easly back to Morvill to thy source.
O my bright lovely Brooke, whose name doth beare the sound
Of Gods first Garden-plot, th'imparadized ground,
Wherein he placed Man, from whence by sinne he fell.
O little blessed Brooke, how doth my bosome swell, / With"
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page 163:-  "With love I beare to thee, the day cannot suffice
For Malerstrang to gaze upon thy beautious eyes."
"This say'd, the Forrest rubd her rugged front the while,
Cleere Eden looking back, regrets her with a smile, ..."
evidence:-   old map:- Drayton 1612/1622
placename:-  Mallerstrang Forest
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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"Mallerstrang for"
Tree, huntress with a bow and arrows. 
item:-  JandMN : 168
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evidence:-   old map:- Jansson 1646
placename:-  Mallerstange Forest
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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"Mallerstange For."
Group of tree symbols. 
item:-  JandMN : 88
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evidence:-   old map:- Seller 1694 (Wmd) 
placename:-  Marllerstange Forest
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmorland, scale about 8 miles to 1 inch, by John Seller, 1694.
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"Marllerstange forest"
area 
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2007.38.87
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evidence:-   old map:- Morden 1695 (Wmd) 
placename:-  Mallerstang Forrest
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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"Mallerstang Forrest"
Trees. 
item:-  JandMN : 24
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evidence:-   descriptive text:- Defoe 1724-26
placename:-  Mallerstang Forest
source data:-   Tour through England and Wales, by Daniel Defoe, published in parts, London, 1724-26.
"... the River Lune, which is the boundary of the county, and leaves the hills of Mallerstang Forest, which are, in many places, unpassable. ..."
evidence:-   descriptive text:- Simpson 1746
placename:-  Mallerstrand Forest
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 Lone or Lune, which rising near Mallerstrand Forest, not far from Rissendale, ..."
evidence:-   old map:- Simpson 1746 map (Wmd) 
placename:-  Mallerstang Forrest
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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"Mallerstang For"
Tree symbols. 
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2007.38.59
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evidence:-   old map:- Bowen and Kitchin 1760
placename:-  Mallerstang Forest
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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"Mallerstang Forest"
bushes 
item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.14.10
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evidence:-   old map:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd) 
placename:-  Mallerstang Forest
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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"MALLERSTANG FOREST"
area 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
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evidence:-   old map:- Cary 1789 (edn 1805) 
placename:-  Mallerstang Forest
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Westmoreland, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Cary, London, 1789; edition 1805.
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"Mallerstang Forest"
area 
item:-  JandMN : 129
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