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How Head, Ambleside
How Head
locality:-   Ambleside
civil parish:-   Lakes (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   NY37810461 (guess) 
1Km square:-   NY3704
10Km square:-   NY30

evidence:-   old drawing:- 
placename:-  How Head
source data:-   Drawing, The Oaks and How Head Ambleside, Westmorland, by William Havell, 1800s-10s.
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View of two buildings in Ambleside in wooded setting with hills in background. One of a set of twenty views of the lake district executed by the artist on one sheet of paper. 
at bottom:-  "The Oaks and How Head Ambleside"
item:-  Tullie House Museum : 2009.89.41
Image © Tullie House Museum

evidence:-   old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s
source data:-   Photograph, black and white, How Head, Ambleside, Westmorland, by Herbert Bell, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s.
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item:-  Armitt Library : ALPS14
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evidence:-   old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s
placename:-  How Head
source data:-   Photograph, How Head, Ambleside, Westmorland, by Herbert Bell, photographer, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1897.
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Vol.2 no.113 in an album, Examples of Early Domestic and Military Architecture in Westmorland, assembled 1910. 
ms at bottom:-  "113. How Head. Ambleside. Grasmere. K."
item:-  Armitt Library : 1958.3166.7
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evidence:-   old print:- Green 1821
placename:-  How Head
source data:-   Print, soft ground etching, The Oaks and How Head, Ambleside, by William Green, published at Ambleside, Westmorland, 1821.
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Plate 9 in Thirty Six Etchings from Nature. 
printed at upper left:-  "9"
printed at bottom:-  "THE OAKS and HOW HEAD, AMBLESIDE. / Etched from Nature by William Green, and Published at Ambleside, May 1, 1821."
item:-  Armitt Library : A6638.9
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