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Wall End, Great Langdale
Wall End
locality:-   Great Langdale
civil parish:-   Lakes (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   NY28300553
1Km square:-   NY2805
10Km square:-   NY20


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CAO10.jpg (taken 2.5.2014)  
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evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 25 6) 
placename:-  Wall 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:-   hearth tax returns:- Hearth Tax 1675
placename:-  Wallend
source data:-   Records, hearth tax survey returns, Westmorland, 1674/75.
"Wallend"
in  "Langdale"

evidence:-   old map:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd) 
placename:-  Wall End
source data:-   Map, 4 sheets, The County of Westmoreland, scale 1 inch to 1 mile, surveyed 1768, and engraved and published by Thomas Jefferys, London, 1770.
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"Wall End"
no symbol 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland

evidence:-   old map:- Cary 1789 (edn 1805) 
placename:-  Wall End
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Westmoreland, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Cary, London, 1789; edition 1805.
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CY24NY20.jpg
"Wall End"
no symbol 
item:-  JandMN : 129
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   old text:- Green 1810
placename:-  Well End
source data:-   Set of prints, soft ground etchings, Sixty Studies from Nature, by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, drawn 1808-10, published 1810.
image GN14p104, button  goto source
page 104:-  "... descend to Well End, the highest house on that side of the valley, and from thence ..."

evidence:-   old map:- Otley 1818
placename:-  Wall End
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, The District of the Lakes, Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Jonathan Otley, 1818, engraved by J and G Menzies, Edinburgh, Scotland, published by Jonathan Otley, Keswick, Cumberland, et al, 1833.
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"Wall end"
item:-  JandMN : 48.1
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evidence:-   old map:- Garnett 1850s-60s H
placename:-  Wallend
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.
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"Wallend"
block, building 
item:-  JandMN : 82.1
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evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Wall End Farm
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"WALL END FARMHOUSE WITH BARNS TO SOUTH EAST AND NORTH / / / LAKES / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 452280 / NY2830405534"

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