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Speet Gill
runs into:-    Wiza Beck (?)

civil parish:-   Westward (formerly Cumberland)
civil parish:-   Wigton (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   river
1Km square:-   NY2747 (etc) 
10Km square:-   NY24

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 29 6) 
placename:-  Speed Gill
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 29 10) 

evidence:-   old map:- Ogilby 1675 (plate 96) 
source data:-   Road strip map, hand coloured engraving, the Road from Kendal to Cockermouth, and the Road from Egremond to Carlisle, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, by John Ogilby, London, 1675.
image
OG96Bm30.jpg
In mile 30, Cumberland.  "a Rill"
drawn across the road. 
item:-  JandMN : 22
Image © see bottom of page

places:-  
NY25744846 Wilkinson Joinery (Wigton)
NY27784727 Speetgill Bridge (Westward)
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