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Steel End, Wythburn
Steel End
locality:-   Wythburn
civil parish:-   St John's Castlerigg and Wythburn (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
locality type:-   post office (?) 
coordinates:-   NY32221278
1Km square:-   NY3212
10Km square:-   NY31


photograph
BLQ19.jpg (taken 15.2.2006)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 70 16) 
placename:-  Steel 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 map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd) 
placename:-  Steal End
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
D4NY31SW.jpg
"Steal End"
block or blocks, labelled in lowercase; a hamlet or just a house 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library

evidence:-   old map:- Clarke 1787 map (Ambleside to Keswick) 
placename:-  Steelend
source data:-   Map, A Map of the Roads Lakes etc between Keswick and Ambleside, scale about 2.5 ins to 1 mile, by James Clarke, engraved by S J Neele, 352 Strand, published by James Clarke, Penrith, Cumberland and in London etc, 1787.
image
CL9NY31A.jpg
"Steelend"
item:-  private collection : 10.9
Image © see bottom of page


photograph
BZG88.jpg (taken 2010)  courtesy of Dori and Geoff

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