Old Cumbria Gazetteer - Birkside Gill

Birkside Gill

runs into:-

Thirlmere

site name:-

Birkside Gill

civil parish:-

St John's Castlerigg and Wythburn (formerly Cumberland)

county:-

Cumbria

locality type:-

river

coordinates:-

NY32541244 (etc)

1Km square:-

NY3212

10Km square:-

NY31

BUF80.jpg (taken 14.3.2011)
photograph

BLT58.jpg (taken 3.4.2006)

evidence:-

old map:- Ogilby 1675 (plate 96)

source data:-

Road strip map, hand coloured engraving, the Road from Kendal to Cockermouth, and the Road from Egremond to Carlisle, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, by John Ogilby, London, 1675.

OG96m020.jpg
In mile 20, Cumberland. "a Rill"
drawn across the road.
item:- JandMN : 22
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-

old map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd)

source data:-

Map, hand coloured engraving, 3x2 sheets, The County of Cumberland, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, by Thomas Donald, engraved and published by Joseph Hodskinson, 29 Arundel Street, Strand, London, 1774.

D4NY31SW.jpg
single or double wiggly line; a river into the Wyth Burn
item:- Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library

places:-

NY32541244 Birkside Gill (St John's Castlerigg and Wythburn)

NY330126 Birkside Gill Copper Mine (St John's Castlerigg and Wythburn)

NY32531274 Redbrow Bridge (St John's Castlerigg and Wythburn)

NY328125 waterfall, Birkside Gill (St John's Castlerigg and Wythburn)

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