Old Cumbria Gazetteer - Bardsea, Urswick

Bardsea, Urswick

Bardsea

civil parish:-

Urswick (formerly Lancashire)

county:-

Cumbria

locality type:-

locality

locality type:-

buildings

coordinates:-

SD30057458 (etc)

1Km square:-

SD3074

10Km square:-

SD37

CCI70.jpg (taken 5.2.2015)
photograph

BRD97.jpg From Birkrigg Common.
(taken 31.7.2009)

evidence:-

old map:- OS County Series (Lan 16 12)
placename:- Bardsea

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:- Camden 1789 (Gough Additions)

source data:-

Book, Britannia, or A Chorographical Description of the Flourishing Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, by William Camden, 1586, translated from the 1607 Latin edition by Richard Gough, published London, 1789.

goto source
Page 142:- "... and Bardsey the only village in it [Furness] that retains a British sound."

evidence:-

old map:- Otley 1818
placename:- Bardsea

source data:-

Map, uncoloured engraving, The District of the Lakes, Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Jonathan Otley, 1818, engraved by J and G Menzies, Edinburgh, Scotland, published by Jonathan Otley, Keswick, Cumberland, et al, 1833.

OT02SD27.jpg
item:- JandMN : 48.1
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-

old map:- Ford 1839 map
placename:- Bardsea

source data:-

Map, uncoloured engraving, Map of the Lake District of Cumberland, Westmoreland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by Charles Thurnam, Carlisle, and by R Groombridge, 5 Paternoster Row, London, 3rd edn 1843.

FD02SD37.jpg
"Bardsea"
item:- JandMN : 100.1
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-

old map:- Garnett 1850s-60s H
placename:- Bardsea

source data:-

Map of the English Lakes, in Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, 1850s-60s.