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Lacra Bank, Whicham
Lacra Bank
civil parish:-   Whicham (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   hill
coordinates:-   SD14488153 (etc) 
1Km square:-   SD1481
10Km square:-   SD18

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 88 13) 
placename:-  Lacra Bank
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:-   probably old text:- Admiralty 1933
placename:-  Lockna Banks
source data:-   image AY01p384, button  goto source
Page 384:-  "... Black Combe, ...and the hills of Lockna banks, partly cultivated, lie a short distance southward of it, ..."

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