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Spadeadam Forest, Kingwater
Spadeadam Forest
Spadeadam Waste
civil parish:-   Kingwater (formerly Cumberland)
civil parish:-   Waterhead (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   forest
coordinates:-   NY632727 (etc etc) 
1Km square:-   NY6372
10Km square:-   NY67

photograph
BOV75.jpg  Near Moscow, Waterhead.
(taken 21.3.2007)  
photograph
BOV76.jpg  Near Moscow, Waterhead.
(taken 21.3.2007)  
evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 8 8) 
placename:-  Spadeadam Waste
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 (Cmd 9 5) 
evidence:-   old map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd) 
placename:-  Spadeadam Waste
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.
image
D4NY67SE.jpg
"SPADEADAM WASTE"
locality 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library
evidence:-   old map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd) 
placename:-  Spadeadam Waste
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.
image
D4NY67SW.jpg
"SPADEADAM WASTE"
locality 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library
evidence:-   old map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd) 
placename:-  Spadeadam Waste
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.
image
D4NY67SE.jpg
"SPADEADAM WASTE"
locality 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library
evidence:-   old map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd) 
placename:-  Spadeadam Waste
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.
image
D4NY67SW.jpg
"SPADEADAM WASTE"
locality 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library
evidence:-   old map:- Moll 1784 (Cmd) 
placename:-  Wast, The
placename:-  Lowes Forest
source data:-   "The Wast."
"Lowes For."
evidence:-   old map:- Ford 1839 map
placename:-  Spadeadam Waste
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Map of the Lake District of Cumberland, Westmoreland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by Charles Thurnam, Carlisle, and by R Groombridge, 5 Paternoster Row, London, 3rd edn 1843.
image
FD02NY67.jpg
"SPADEADAM WASTE"
Area. 
item:-  JandMN : 100.1
Image © see bottom of page
evidence:-   old print:- 
placename:-  Waste of Cumberland
source data:-   Print, uncoloured engraving, Waste of Cumberland, Spadeadam, drawn by Copley Fielding, engraved by Edward Finden, published by Chapman and Hall, 186 Strand, London, 1832.
image  click to enlarge
PR0304.jpg
With lonely travellers, on foot and horse with panniers. 
Used in an edition of Guy Mannering by Sir Walter Scott. 
printed at bottom left, right, centre:-  "Drawn by Copley Fielding. / Engraved by Edward Finden. / Waste of Cumberland. / London. Published July 1832, by Chapman &Hall, 186, Strand."
printed at bottom right:-  "GUY MANNERING"
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2008.107.304
Image © see bottom of page

photograph
BOV77.jpg  Near Moscow, Waterhead.
(taken 21.3.2007)  
photograph
BOV78.jpg  The waste ...
(taken 21.3.2007)  
MN photo:-  

photograph
BOV81.jpg  Range warning signs.
(taken 21.3.2008)  
photograph
BOV82.jpg  Range warning sign.
(taken 21.3.2008)  
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