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Brathay Rocks, Skelwith
Brathay Rocks
locality:-   Windermere lake
civil parish:-   Skelwith (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   headland
locality type:-   rocks
coordinates:-   NY37090289
1Km square:-   NY3702
10Km square:-   NY30

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 26 14) 
placename:-  Hanikin
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:-   old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s
item:-  cloudssunset
source data:-   Photograph, black and white, sunset clouds, Brathay Rocks by Windermere lake, Skelwith, Lancashire, by Herbert Bell, photographer, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s.
image  click to enlarge
HB0894.jpg
item:-  Armitt Library : ALPS565
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evidence:-   old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s
item:-  rowing boatboat
source data:-   Photograph, sepia, Brathay Rocks on Windermere, Skelwith, Westmorland, by Herbert Bell, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s?
image  click to enlarge
HB0264.jpg
item:-  Armitt Library : ALPS618
Image © see bottom of page

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