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Swindale Head, Shap Rural (2)
Swindale Head
High Swindale Head
locality:-   Swindale
civil parish:-   Shap Rural (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   building/s (ruin) 
coordinates:-   NY50261212
1Km square:-   NY5012
10Km square:-   NY51
SummaryText:-   old Swindale Head.


photograph
BUA65.jpg (taken 11.2.2011)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 20) 
placename:-  Swindale Head
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.
"Swindale Head"

evidence:-   probably old map:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd) 
placename:-  Sliddale Hall
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.
image
J5NY51SW.jpg
"Sliddale Hall"
circle, labelled in italic lowercase text; settlement, farm, house, or hamlet? 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland

evidence:-   old map:- Cary 1789 (edn 1805) 
placename:-  Sliddale Hall
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Westmoreland, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Cary, London, 1789; edition 1805.
image
CY24NY51.jpg
"Sliddale Hall"
block/s, labelled in italic lowercase; house, or hamlet (misplaced label) 
item:-  JandMN : 129
Image © see bottom of page

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