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Clappersgate Cottage, Clappersgate
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Clappersgate Cottage
locality:-   Clappersgate
civil parish:-   Lakes (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   NY366034 (?) 
1Km square:-   NY3603
10Km square:-   NY30

evidence:-   old text:- Green 1810
placename:-  Clappersgate Cottage
source data:-   Set of prints, soft ground etchings, Sixty Studies from Nature, by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, drawn 1808-10, published 1810.
image GN14p012, button  goto source
page 12:-  "... [from the lake] the Westmorland houses beginning with Clappersgate cottage, Mrs. Freeman's, which with Croft lodge and its fine grounds, the property of Miss Pritchard, are situate under Loughrigg fell."

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