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Beetham Park, Beetham
Beetham Park
locality:-   Beetham Hall
civil parish:-   Beetham (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   park
coordinates:-   SD49837884 (etc) 
1Km square:-   SD4978
10Km square:-   SD47

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 46 7) 
placename:-  Beetham Park
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:- Saxton 1579
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmorlandiae et Cumberlandiae Comitatus ie Westmorland and Cumberland, scale about 5 miles to 1 inch, by Christopher Saxton, London, engraved by Augustinus Ryther, 1576, published 1579-1645.
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At Betham; fence palings, tree. 
item:-  private collection : 2
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evidence:-   old map:- Speed 1611 (Wmd) 
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, The Countie Westmorland and Kendale the Cheif Towne, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Speed, 1610, published by George Humble, Popes Head Alley, London, 1611-12.
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ring of fence palings, trees, at Beetham 
item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.14.5
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evidence:-   old map:- Jansson 1646
placename:-  Bethan
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Cumbria and Westmoria, ie Cumberland and Westmorland, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Jansson, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1646.
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"Bethan"
Ring of fence palings with trees. 
item:-  JandMN : 88
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evidence:-   old map:- Morden 1695 (Wmd) 
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmorland, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by Robert Morden, published by Abel Swale, the Unicorn, St Paul's Churchyard, Awnsham, and John Churchill, the Black Swan, Paternoster Row, London, 1695.
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Ring of fence palings, trees, by Betham. 
item:-  JandMN : 24
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evidence:-   descriptive text:- Simpson 1746
placename:-  Betham Park
source data:-   Atlas, three volumes of maps and descriptive text published as 'The Agreeable Historian, or the Compleat English Traveller ...', by Samuel Simpson, 1746.
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Page 1021:-  "..."
"In Betham-Park in the Barony of Kendal, is a petrifying Spring called the Dripping Well."

evidence:-   old map:- Bowen and Kitchin 1760
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, A New Map of the Counties of Cumberland and Westmoreland Divided into their Respective Wards, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Emanuel Bowen and Thomas Kitchin et al, published by T Bowles, Robert Sayer, and John Bowles, London, 1760.
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outline of fence palings at Beetham 
item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.14.10
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