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Watermillock House, Watermillock
Watermillock House
locality:-   Watermillock
civil parish:-   Matterdale (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   NY44602245
1Km square:-   NY4422
10Km square:-   NY42


photograph
CAM48.jpg (taken 29.4.2014)  
photograph
CAM49.jpg  Date stone etc:-
"16 86 / D / I E" (taken 29.4.2014)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 66 5) 
placename:-  Watermillock House
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:-  Watermelock
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.
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D4NY42SW.jpg
"Watermelock / Robinson Esqr."
house 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library

evidence:-   old print with text:- Farington 1816
placename:-  Water Millock
source data:-   Print, uncoloured engraving and descriptive text, Water Millock and the lower end of Ulswater, Cumberland, drawn by Joseph Farington, engraved by J Scott, published by T Cadell and W Davies, Strand, London, 1815.
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printed, bottom left, right, centre  "Drawn by J. Farington R.A. / Engraved by J. Scott. / Water Millock and the lower end of Ulswater. / London Published Septr. 15, 1815, by T. Cadell &W. Davies, Strand."
Descriptive text:-  "WATER MILLOCK AND THE LOWER END OF ULSWATER."
"... In the first distance, near the centre, appears Water Millock, the seat of Mr. Robinson, which is sequestered amid beech and sycamore trees. ..."
item:-  Armitt Library : A6666.6
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Watermillock House
placename:-  Magnolia Cottage
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"WATERMILLOCK HOUSE AND ADJOINING PART OF MAGNOLIA COTTAGE / / A592 / MATTERDALE / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II[star] / 74548 / NY4459422459"

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"GATE AND GATEPIERS IMMEDIATELY NORTH-EAST OF WATERMILLOCK HOUSE / / A592 / MATTERDALE / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 74549 / NY4461422467"


photograph
CAM50.jpg  Gate piers etc.
(taken 29.4.2014)  

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