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 Windermere lake
viewpoint, Queen Adelaide's Hill
locality:-   Queen Adelaide's Hill
locality:-   Windermere
civil parish:-   Windermere (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   viewpoint
coordinates:-   SD40369866
1Km square:-   SD4098
10Km square:-   SD49
altitude:-   259 feet
altitude:-   79m
SummaryText:-   Summit of small hill.

evidence:-   old map:- Crosthwaite 1783-94 (Win/Ble) 
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, An Accurate Map of the Grand Lake of Windermere, scale about 2 inches to 1 mile, by Peter Crosthwaite, Keswick, Cumberland, 1783, version published 1819.
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"The Authors / First Station"
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item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.14.102
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evidence:-   old map:- Crosthwaite 1783-94 (Win/Ble) 
placename:-  station, Windermere, Crosthwaite 1
source data:-   Series of maps, An Accurate Map of the Matchless Lake of Derwent, of the Grand Lake of Windermere, of the Beautiful Lake of Ullswater, of Broadwater or Bassenthwaite Lake, of Coniston Lake, of Buttermere, Crummock and Loweswater Lakes, and Pocklington's Island, by Peter Crosthwaite, Kendal, Cumberland now Cumbria, 1783 to 1794.
marked on the map of lake Windermere, on the east shore by Miller Ground  "The Author's First Station"

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person:-   map maker
 : Crosthwaite, Peter
place:-   Windermere lake
date:-   1783
period:-   18th century, late
period:-   1780s
item:-   mapAccurate Map of the Grand Lake of Windermere

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