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Barrow Head, Barrow-in-Furness
Barrow Head
locality:-   Barrow-in-Furness
civil parish:-   Barrow-in-Furness (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   locality
coordinates:-   SD198689 (etc) 
1Km square:-   SD1968
10Km square:-   SD16
references:-   Greenwood 1824

evidence:-   old map:- Mercator 1595 (edn?) 
placename:-  Barrohead
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmorlandia, Lancastria, Cestria etc, ie Westmorland, Lancashire, Cheshire etc, scale about 10.5 miles to 1 inch, by Gerard Mercator, Duisberg, Germany, 1595, edition 1613-16.
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"Barrohead"
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item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.14.3
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evidence:-   old map:- Greenwood 1824
placename:-  Barrow Head
source data:-   Maps, Map of the County of Westmorland, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, and Map of the County of Cumberland, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, etc, by C and J Greenwood, published by George Pringle jnr, 70 Queen Street, Cheapside, London, 1823 and 1824 respectively.
"Barrow Head"

evidence:-   old map:- Ford 1839 map
placename:-  Barrow Head
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Map of the Lake District of Cumberland, Westmoreland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by Charles Thurnam, Carlisle, and by R Groombridge, 5 Paternoster Row, London, 3rd edn 1843.
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"Barrow Hd."
item:-  JandMN : 100.1
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