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Blawith
civil parish:-   Blawith and Subberthwaite (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   locality
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   SD288883
1Km square:-   SD2888
10Km square:-   SD28


photograph
BUI73.jpg  Roadsign.
(taken 19.4.2011)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Lan 7 11) 
placename:-  Blawith
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:- Mercator 1595 (edn?) 
placename:-  Blowith Chapelry
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmorlandia, Lancastria, Cestria etc, ie Westmorland, Lancashire, Cheshire etc, scale about 10.5 miles to 1 inch, by Gerard Mercator, Duisberg, Germany, 1595, edition 1613-16.
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MER5LanA.jpg
"Blowith chap."
circle 
item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.14.3
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evidence:-   old map:- Crosthwaite 1783-94 (Con) 
placename:-  Blauth
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, An Accurate Map of Coniston Lake, scale about 3 inches to 1 mile, by Peter Crosthwaite, Keswick, Cumberland, 1788, version published 1809.
image
CTESD28Z.jpg
"Blauth Hamlet"
not marked 
item:-  JandMN : 182.5
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evidence:-   old map:- West 1784 map
placename:-  Blawith
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, A Map of the Lakes in Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, engraved by Paas, 53 Holborn, London, about 1784.
image
Ws02SD28.jpg
item:-  Armitt Library : A1221.1
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evidence:-   old map:- Otley 1818
placename:-  Blawith
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.
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OT02SD28.jpg
"BLAWITH"
item:-  JandMN : 48.1
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evidence:-   old map:- Ford 1839 map
placename:-  Blawith
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.
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FD02SD28.jpg
"Blawith"
item:-  JandMN : 100.1
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evidence:-   old map:- Garnett 1850s-60s H
placename:-  Blawith
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.
image
GAR2SD28.jpg
"Blawith"
blocks, settlement, and a cross, a church 
item:-  JandMN : 82.1
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evidence:-   old map:- Post Office 1850s-1900s
placename:-  Blawith
source data:-   Post road maps, General Post Office Circulation Map for England and Wales, for the General Post Office, London, 1850s-1900s.
image  click to enlarge
POF7Cm.jpg
"Blawith"
map date 1909 

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images courtesy of the British Postal Museum and Hampshire CC Museums

places:-  
SD28838822 Blawith Church (Blawith and Subberthwaite) L
SD28838820 Old School, The (Blawith and Subberthwaite)
SD28878834 St John's Church (Blawith and Subberthwaite)
SD2789 Tarn Beck (Blawith and Subberthwaite)
SD286886 Woodside (Blawith and Subberthwaite)
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