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St Herbert's Cell, Derwent Water
St Herbert's Cell
locality:-   St Herbert's Island
civil parish:-   Above Derwent (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   chapel
locality type:-   hermitage
coordinates:-   NY25942132 (?) 
1Km square:-   NY2521
10Km square:-   NY22
evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 64 10) 
placename:-  St Herbert's Cell
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 text:- Wordsworth 1810
placename:-  St Herbert's Hermitage
source data:-   Guide book, A Description of the Scenery of the Lakes, later A Guide through the District of The Lakes, by William Wordsworth, 1810-35.
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page 21  "... Every one must regret ... that the Chauntry has disappeared, where mass used to be sung, upon St. Herbert's Island, Derwent-water. ..."
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page 62  "The venerable wood that had grown for centuries round the small house called St. Herbert's Hermitage, ..."
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