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Nook End Farm, Ambleside
Nook End Farm
Nook End
Nookend
Street:-   Nook Lane
locality:-   Ambleside
civil parish:-   Lakes (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
locality type:-   locality
coordinates:-   NY37490543
1Km square:-   NY3705
10Km square:-   NY30


photograph
CCJ95.jpg (taken 11.2.2015)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 26 6) 
placename:-  Nook End
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 text:- Martineau 1855
source data:-   Guide book, A Complete Guide to the English Lakes, by Harriet Martineau, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, and by Whittaker and Co, London, 1855; published 1855-76.
image MNU1P058, button  goto source
Page 58:-  "... The Nook is a farmhouse in a glorious situation as he will"
image MNU1P059, button  goto source
Page 59:-  "see when he gets there and steps into the field on the left, to look abroad from the brow. ..."

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Nook End Farm
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"NOOK END FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED FARM BUILDING / / NOOK LANE / LAKES / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 450601 / NY3749505422"


photograph
CCJ96.jpg  Barn at N end.
(taken 11.2.2015)  

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