Old Cumbria Gazetteer |
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| boat house, Keswick (3) | ||
| site name:- | Derwent Water | |
| locality:- | Keswick | |
| civil parish:- | Keswick (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | boat house | |
| coordinates:- | NY26382256 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY2622 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY22 | |
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 BUM21.jpg (taken 3.5.2011)  BUM22.jpg (taken 3.5.2011) |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 64 6) |
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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. "Boat Ho." |
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| evidence:- | old print:- Green 1810 (plate 32) |
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| source data:- | Print, soft ground etching, Derwent Water from Crow Park, Keswick, Cumberland, by
William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1810. click to enlargeGN1232.jpg Plate 32 in Sixty Studies from Nature, 1810. printed at bottom:- "DERWENT WATER FROM CROW PARK. / Drawn and Engraved by William Green and Published at Ambleside, June 24, 1810." watermark:- "J WHATMAN / 1813" item:- Armitt Library : A6641.32 Image © see bottom of page |
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 BUM23.jpg Landing stage. (taken 3.5.2011) |
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| hearsay:- |
It is possible that this is the Duke of Portland's Boat House, qv. |
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