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Birds Park Reservoir, Kendal
Birds Park Reservoir
locality:-   Birds Park Farm
civil parish:-   Kendal (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   reservoir
locality type:-   tarn
coordinates:-   SD53769329
1Km square:-   SD5393
10Km square:-   SD59

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 39 1) 
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.
"Reservoir"
and another reservoir to the west 

evidence:-   old map:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd) 
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
J5SD59SW.jpg
outline with form lines; lake or tarn; forerunner of the reservoirs? 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland

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