Old Cumbria Gazetteer |
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| salt pans, Lowca | ||
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| locality:- | Lowca | |
| civil parish:- | Lowca (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | salt pans | |
| coordinates:- | NX97792168 (estimate) | |
| 1Km square:- | NX9721 | |
| 10Km square:- | NX92 | |
| references:- | Gents Mag |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 61 9) |
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| 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. "Remains of old Salt Pans" |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Gents Mag |
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| source data:- | Magazine, The Gentleman's Magazine or Monthly Intelligencer or
Historical Chronicle, published by Edward Cave under the
pseudonym Sylvanus Urban, and by other publishers, London,
monthly from 1731 to 1922. goto sourceGentleman's Magazine 1748 p.5 "..." "Both Harrington salt-pans, which are now wrought, and the old ones of Leuco, which are tumbling into ruins every spring tide, are shockingly situated." |
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