Old Cumbria Gazetteer - Waterhead, Coniston

Waterhead, Coniston

Waterhead

locality:-

Water Head

civil parish:-

Coniston (formerly Lancashire)

county:-

Cumbria

locality type:-

locality

locality type:-

buildings

coordinates:-

SD31019753 (etc)

1Km square:-

SD3197

10Km square:-

SD39

evidence:-

old map:- West 1784 map
placename:- Waterhead

source data:-

Map, hand coloured engraving, A Map of the Lakes in Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, engraved by Paas, 53 Holborn, London, about 1784.

Ws02SD39.jpg
item:- Armitt Library : A1221.1
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-

old print:- Green 1814 (plate 3)
placename:- Water Head

source data:-

Print, tinted soft ground etching, Scene near Coniston Water Head, Coniston, Lancashire, by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1814.

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GN1003.jpg
Plate 3 in Sixty Small Prints.
printed at top right:- "3"
printed at bottom:- "SCENE NEAR CONISTON WATER HEAD. / Published at Ambleside Augst. 1, 1814, by Wm. Green."
item:- Armitt Library : A6653.3
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-

old print:- Green 1814 (plate 3)
placename:- Water Head

source data:-

Print, uncoloured soft ground etching, Scene near Coniston Water Head, Coniston, Lancashire, by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1814.

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GN0903.jpg
Plate 3 in Sixty Small Prints.
printed at top right:- "3"
printed at bottom:- "SCENE NEAR CONISTON WATER HEAD. / Published at Ambleside Augst. 1, 1814, by Wm. Green."
item:- Armitt Library : A6656.3
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-

old text:- Green 1814
placename:- Waterhead

source data:-

Set of prints, soft ground etchings, Sixty Small Prints, with text, A Description of a Series of Sixty Small Prints, by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1814.