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Orton Beacon, Orton S
Orton Beacon
site name:-   Beacon Hill
locality:-   Great Asby Scar
civil parish:-   Asby (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   beacon
coordinates:-   NY63490997
1Km square:-   NY6309
10Km square:-   NY60


photograph
CCM72.jpg  Beacon Monument.
(taken 17.2.2015)  
photograph
CCM73.jpg  Beacon Monument.
(taken 17.2.2015)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series
placename:-  Orton Beacon
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.
"Orton Beacon"

evidence:-   old map:- Saxton 1579
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmorlandiae et Cumberlandiae Comitatus ie Westmorland and Cumberland, scale about 5 miles to 1 inch, by Christopher Saxton, London, engraved by Augustinus Ryther, 1576, published 1579-1645.
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NW of Sunbiggin; small tower with flames. 
item:-  private collection : 2
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evidence:-   old map:- Speed 1611 (Wmd) 
placename:-  Beacon, The
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, The Countie Westmorland and Kendale the Cheif Towne, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Speed, 1610, published by George Humble, Popes Head Alley, London, 1611-12.
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"The Beacon"
post and cresset? on a hillock 
item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.14.5
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evidence:-   old map:- Jansson 1646
placename:-  Beacon, The
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Cumbria and Westmoria, ie Cumberland and Westmorland, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Jansson, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1646.
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"The Beacon"
Hillock, post with ladder rungs etc. 
item:-  JandMN : 88
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evidence:-   old map:- Sanson 1679
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Ancien Royaume de Northumberland aujourdhuy Provinces de Nort, ie the Ancient Kingdom of Northumberland or the Northern Provinces, scale about 9.5 miles to 1 inch, by Nicholas Sanson, Paris, France, 1679.
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SAN2Cm.jpg
?obelisk on a hill 
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2007.38.15
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evidence:-   probably old map:- Morden 1695 (Wmd) 
placename:-  Orton Beacon
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmorland, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by Robert Morden, published by Abel Swale, the Unicorn, St Paul's Churchyard, Awnsham, and John Churchill, the Black Swan, Paternoster Row, London, 1695.
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"Orton Beacon"
Post with a cresset on a bracket, and a ladder up the side. 
item:-  JandMN : 24
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evidence:-   old map:- Bowen and Kitchin 1760
placename:-  Beacon, The
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, A New Map of the Counties of Cumberland and Westmoreland Divided into their Respective Wards, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Emanuel Bowen and Thomas Kitchin et al, published by T Bowles, Robert Sayer, and John Bowles, London, 1760.
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"The Beacon"
hill hachuring 
item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.14.10
Image © see bottom of page

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