button to main menu  Old Cumbria Gazetteer
Near Orrest, Windermere
Near Orrest
civil parish:-   Windermere (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   NY41870020
1Km square:-   NY4100
10Km square:-   NY40


photograph
CFS03.jpg (taken 11.11.2016)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 32 4) 
placename:-  Near Orrest
placename:-  Orrest, Near
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:-  Orest
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
"Orest"
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:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Near Orrest Farm
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"NEAR ORREST FARMHOUSE / / / WINDERMERE TOWN / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II[star] / 351652 / NY4187500202"

button to lakes menu  Lakes Guides menu.