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| civil parish:- | Silloth-on-Solway (formerly Cumberland) | |||
| county:- | Cumbria | |||
| locality type:- | locality | |||
| locality type:- | buildings | |||
| locality type:- | selected place | |||
| coordinates:- | NY11055369 (etc) | |||
| 1Km square:- | NY1053 | |||
| 10Km square:- | NY15 | |||
| latitude; longitude:- | 3d 23.3m W; 54d 52.1m N | |||
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 20 11) placename:- Silloth |
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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. |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Saxton 1579 placename:- Silluthe |
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| 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. Sax9NY15.jpg Building, symbol for a hamlet, which may or may not have a nucleus. "Silluthe" item:- private collection : 2 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Mercator 1595 (edn?) placename:- Silluthe |
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| source data:- | Map, hand coloured engraving, Northumbria, Cumberlandia, et
Dunelmensis Episcopatus, ie Northumberland, Cumberland and
Durham etc, scale about 6.5 miles to 1 inch, by Gerard Mercator,
Duisberg, Germany, about 1595. MER8CumB.jpg "Silluthe" circle; plotted by Moricambe Bay item:- JandMN : 169 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Speed 1611 (Cmd) placename:- Silluth |
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| source data:- | Map, hand coloured engraving, Cumberland and the Ancient Citie
Carlile Described, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by John Speed,
1610, published by J Sudbury and George Humble, Popes Head
Alley, London, 1611-12. SP11NY15.jpg "Silluth" circle, tower; plotted too far inland item:- private collection : 16 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Jansson 1646 placename:- Silluth |
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| 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. JAN3NY15.jpg "Silluth" Buildings and tower. item:- JandMN : 88 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Morden 1695 (Cmd) placename:- Silleth |
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| source data:- | Map, uncoloured engraving, Cumberland, scale about 4 miles to 1
inch, by Robert Morden, 1695, published by Abel Swale, the
Unicorn, St Paul's Churchyard, Awnsham, and John Churchill, the
Black Swan, Paternoster Row, London, 1695-1715. MD12NY15.jpg "Silleth" Circle. item:- JandMN : 90 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Bowen and Kitchin 1760 placename:- Silleth |
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| 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. BO18NY14.jpg "Silleth" circle, tower, drawn on the wrong coast item:- Armitt Library : 2008.14.10 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd) placename:- Silloth |
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| source data:- | Map, hand coloured engraving, 3x2 sheets, The County of Cumberland, scale about 1
inch to 1 mile, by Thomas Donald, engraved and published by Joseph Hodskinson, 29
Arundel Street, Strand, London, 1774. D4NY15SW.jpg "Silloth" block or blocks, labelled in lowercase; a hamlet or just a house item:- Carlisle Library : Map 2 Image © Carlisle Library |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd) placename:- Silloth |
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| source data:- | Map, hand coloured engraving, 3x2 sheets, The County of Cumberland, scale about 1
inch to 1 mile, by Thomas Donald, engraved and published by Joseph Hodskinson, 29
Arundel Street, Strand, London, 1774. DN04Sllt.jpg "Silloth" block or blocks, labelled in lowercase; a hamlet or just a house item:- Carlisle Library : Map 2 Image © Carlisle Library |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Greenwood 1824 placename:- Silloth |
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| source data:- | Map, engraving, Map of the County of Cumberland, scale about 1
inch to 1 mile, etc, by Christopher and John Greenwood,
published by George Pringle jnr, 70 Queen Street, Cheapside,
London, 1823. gw12sllt.jpg "Silloth" buildings on streets; labelled in lowercase for a parish or township. item:- National Library of Scotland : EME.b.3.11 Image © National Library of Scotland |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Garnett 1850s-60s H placename:- Silloth |
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| 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. GAR2NY15.jpg "Silloth" blocks, settlement item:- JandMN : 82.1 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Wood 1880s |
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| source data:- | Album, Souvenir Album of Silloth, views in Silloth and Skinburness, published by J
Wood and Co, Silloth, Cumberland, 1880s? "This fashionable favourite watering place is situated on the Solway Firth, 22½Miles from Carlisle." "..." "Silloth Pier - 1000 ft. long, 25 ft. broad, free to visitors fishing or boating -. Steam boats daily to Liverpool, twice a week to Dublin, Isle-of-Man and Whitehaven." "Climate mild, prevailing winds south west, Ozone more than any place in England."  WD01C.jpg "Souvenir Album of Silloth" "28 views" "J Wood and Co, Silloth." item:- JandMN : 454 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Postlethwaite 1877 (3rd edn 1913) placename:- Silloth |
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| source data:- | Map, uncoloured engraving, Map of the Lake District Mining Field, Westmorland, Cumberland,
Lancashire, scale about 5 miles to 1 inch, by John Postlethwaite, published by W H
Moss and Sons, 13 Lowther Street, Whitehaven, Cumberland, 1877 edn 1913. PST2NY15.jpg "Silloth" dots, railway and station item:- JandMN : 162.2 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Post Office 1850s-1900s placename:- Silloth |
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| source data:- | Post road maps, General Post Office Circulation Map for England
and Wales, for the General Post Office, London, 1850s-1900s. click to enlargePOF7Cm.jpg "Silloth" map date 1909 |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Post Office 1850s-1900s placename:- Silloth |
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| source data:- | Post road maps, General Post Office Circulation Map for England
and Wales, for the General Post Office, London, 1850s-1900s. click to enlargePF10Cm.jpg "Silloth" map date 1892 |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Post Office 1850s-1900s placename:- Silloth |
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| source data:- | Post road maps, General Post Office Circulation Map for England
and Wales, for the General Post Office, London, 1850s-1900s. click to enlargePOF2Cm.jpg "Silloth" map date 1890 |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Post Office 1850s-1900s placename:- Silloth |
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| source data:- | Post road maps, General Post Office Circulation Map for England
and Wales, for the General Post Office, London, 1850s-1900s. click to enlargePOF8Cm.jpg "Silloth / Stn." map date 1873 |
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images courtesy of the British Postal Museum and Hampshire CC Museums |
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 BZU58.jpg lemonade bottle & codds bottle & Silloth Mineral Water Co & boat &fishing boat (taken 7.2.2014) |
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| hearsay:- |
The Carlisle and Silloth Bay Railway was allowed to purchase 15 acres of land for
extraordinary purposes, which did not include property development. In the 1850s-60s
it bought 210 acres, and developed a resort; streets, gardens, hotel, gas works, sewage
system, baths, bathing machines, and the company even provided a policemen. Plots
were leased for building, and the company built some houses itself. |
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| The Bishop of Carlisle called it the Torquay of the North. |
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| placename:- |
Cistercian monks from Abbey Town stored grain here in barns called laithes, by the sea, thus sea laith, Silloth. |
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| reference:- |
Silloth |
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| Adams, Douglas & Lloyd, John: 1990: Deeper Meaning of Life, The: Pan Books &Faber
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