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Windebrowe, Keswick
Windebrowe
locality:-   Brigham (?) 
civil parish:-   Keswick (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   NY27632400
1Km square:-   NY2724
10Km square:-   NY22

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series
placename:-  Greta Bank
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:- Crosthwaite 1783-94 (Der) 
placename:-  Windy Brow
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, An Accurate Map of the Matchless Lake of Derwent, ie Derwent Water, scale about 3 inches to 1 mile, by Peter Crosthwaite, Keswick, Cumberland, 1783, version published 1800.
image
CT2NY22Q.jpg
"Windy Brow / Wm. Calvert's Esqr."
item:-  Armitt Library : 1959.191.3
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Windebrowe
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"WINDEBROWE / / OLD WINDEBROWE ROAD / UNDERSKIDDAW / ALLERDALE / CUMBRIA / II / 72208 / NY2763324008"

hearsay:-  
The miners from Ausberg who worked at Brigham Forge, lived here.
It was once the home of William Calvert; William and Dorothy Wordsworth stayed here, 1794; It was sold to the Spedding Family, 1833; now owned by the Calvert Trust.

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