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Rowling End Farm, Above Derwent
Rowling End Farm
locality:-   Newlands Valley
civil parish:-   Above Derwent (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   NY23462052
1Km square:-   NY2320
10Km square:-   NY22

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 64 13) 
placename:-  Low Houses
placename:-  Houses, Low
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 map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd) 
placename:-  Low House
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, 3x2 sheets, The County of Cumberland, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, by Thomas Donald, engraved and published by Joseph Hodskinson, 29 Arundel Street, Strand, London, 1774.
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"Low Ho."
block or blocks, labelled in lowercase; a hamlet or just a house 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library

evidence:-   old print:- Green 1809
placename:-  Low Houses
source data:-   Print, soft ground etching, Low Houses in Newlands Valley, Cumberland, by William Green, published by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, and Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, Paternoster Row, London, 1809.
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Plate 37 in Seventy Eight Studies from Nature. 
printed in introductory pages to set of prints:-  "Number 37. The Horse Road between Keswick and Buttermere is through Newlands. Low Houses joins this road, and is about four miles from Keswick; Skelgill, with its Sycamores, is about half a mile to the left, and at right angles with the road at Low Houses."
printed at bottom:-  "LOW HOUSES IN NEWLANDS. / Published Ambleside, Augst. 1st. 1809, by W. Green."
item:-  Armitt Library : A6637.37
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