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Lonsdale Ward, Westmorland
Lonsdale Ward
locality:-   Barony of Kendal
county:-   Westmorland
locality type:-   ward
references:-   Dawson 1830s

evidence:-   old map:- Seale 1761
placename:-  Lonsdale Ward
source data:-   Maps, Westmoreland, scale about 7 miles to 1 inch, and Cumberland? by R W Seale, 1761.

evidence:-   old map:- Bowen 1763
placename:-  Lonsdale Ward
source data:-   Map, Improved Map of the Counties of Cumberland and Westmoreland, scale about 5.5 miles to 1 inch, derived from a larger map by Bowen or Kitchin, by Emanuel Bowen, London, about 1763; published 1763-1828.

evidence:-   old text:- Camden 1789 (Gough Additions) 
placename:-  Lonsdale Ward
source data:-   Book, Britannia, or A Chorographical Description of the Flourishing Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, by William Camden, 1586, translated from the 1607 Latin edition by Richard Gough, published London, 1789.
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Page 151:-  "... In each barony we find two wards, being districts of the like number of high-constables, who presided over the wards to be sustained at certain fords and other places for repelling plundering parties out of Scotland. Two of these wards are in Kendal Barony, Kendale and Lonsdale wards; ..."

evidence:-   old map:- Cooke 1802
placename:-  Lonsdale Ward
source data:-   Map, Westmoreland ie Westmorland, scale about 12 miles to 1 inch, by George Cooke, 1802, published by Sherwood, Jones and Co, Paternoster Road, London, 1824.
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"Lonsdale [Ward]"
area 4 
item:-  Hampshire Museums : FA2000.62.4
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evidence:-   old map:- Cooper 1808
placename:-  Lonsdale Ward
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmoreland ie Westmorland, scale about 9 miles to 1 inch, by H Cooper, 1808, published by R Phillips, Bridge Street, Blackfriars, London, 1808.
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"Wards. / ... / 4 Lonsdale."
number on map, table on right 
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2007.38.53
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evidence:-   old map:- Dawson 1830s
placename:-  Lonsdale Ward
source data:-   Political maps, Westmoreland, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, and Cumberland, scale about 7.5 miles to 1 inch, showing the proposed parliamentary divisions, and town maps Carlisle, Kendal, Cockermouth, Whitehaven, Workington, at larger scales, made for the Reform Bill 1832, by Lieut Robert K Dawson RE, 1831.

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