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| Brow Top Farm, Kentmere | ||
| Brow Top Farm | ||
| locality:- | Kentmere | |
| civil parish:- | Kentmere (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | buildings | |
| coordinates:- | NY45740431 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY4504 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY40 | |
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 BRK06.jpg Name sign, and chicken:- "BROW TOP FARM / Very Free Range / EGGS / For Sale" (taken 9.9.2009) |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 27 9) placename:- Brow Top |
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| 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. |
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| evidence:- | hearth tax returns:- Hearth Tax 1675 placename:- Browtop |
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| source data:- | Records, hearth tax survey returns, Westmorland, 1674/75. "Browtop" in "Kentmere" |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd) placename:- Brow Top |
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| source data:- | Map, 4 sheets, The County of Westmoreland, scale 1 inch to 1
mile, surveyed 1768, and engraved and published by Thomas
Jefferys, London, 1770. J5NY40SE.jpg "Brow Top" circle, labelled in italic lowercase text; settlement, farm, house, or hamlet? item:- National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47 Image © National Library of Scotland |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Cary 1789 (edn 1805) placename:- Brow Top |
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| source data:- | Map, uncoloured engraving, Westmoreland, scale about 2.5 miles
to 1 inch, by John Cary, London, 1789; edition 1805. CY24NY40.jpg "Brow Top" block/s, labelled in italic lowercase; house, or hamlet item:- JandMN : 129 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:- Brow Top Farm |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "BROW TOP FARMHOUSE / / / KENTMERE / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 76481 / NY4574204310" |
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