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Rannerdale, Buttermere
Rannerdale
Rannerdale Farm
civil parish:-   Buttermere (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
locality type:-   locality
coordinates:-   NY16301870
1Km square:-   NY1618
10Km square:-   NY11


photograph
CAX98.jpg (taken 11.6.2014)  
photograph
CAX99.jpg  Date stone:-
"S.W / 1865" (taken 11.6.2014)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 69 2) 
placename:-  Rannerdale
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 photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s
source data:-   Photograph, black and white, Crummock Water and Rannerdale, Buttermere, Cumberland, by Herbert Bell, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s.
image  click to enlarge
HB0466.jpg
item:-  Armitt Library : ALPS125
Image © see bottom of page


photograph
CAY01.jpg (taken 11.6.2014)  
photograph
BNP62.jpg (taken 26.4.2007)  

hearsay:-  
This is/was one of the Covenant Farms, owned by Lake District Farm Estates registered under the Industrial Provident Societies Act 1862, set up to preserve farms.

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