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Yews, Windermere
Yews
locality:-   Storrs
civil parish:-   Windermere (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   SD40139491
1Km square:-   SD4094
10Km square:-   SD49

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 32 15) 
placename:-  Storrs Tenement
placename:-  Yews, The
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.

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Yews, The
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"THE YEWS / / / WINDERMERE TOWN / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 351711 / SD4015194914"

notes:-  
The upper drive, and perhaps the lower, at The Yews was landscaped by Thomas H Mawson and Lakeland Nurseries 1902, for Sir James Scott.

Waymark, Janet: 2009: Thomas Mawson, Life, Gardens and Landscapes: Lincoln, Francis (London)

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