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Brathay Bay, Windermere lake
Brathay Bay
site name:-   Windermere lake
locality:-   Brathay
civil parish:-   Skelwith (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   bay
coordinates:-   NY37000288
1Km square:-   NY3702
10Km square:-   NY30

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 26 14) 
placename:-  Brathay Bay
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.
OS County Series (Lan 2 6) 

evidence:-   old map:- Clarke 1787 map (Windermere N) 
source data:-   Map, A Map of the Northern Part of the Lake Winandermere and its Environs, scale about 6.5 ins to 1 mile, by James Clarke, engraved by Samuel John Neele, 352 Strand, published by James Clarke, Penrith, Cumberland and in London etc, 1787.
image
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item:-  private collection : 10.10
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s
item:-  rowing boatboat
source data:-   Photograph, sepia, Brathay Bay, Windermere lake, by Skelwith, Lancashire, by Herbert Bell, photographer, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s.
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internegative at lower left:-  "H. Bell"
item:-  Armitt Library : ALPS473
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hearsay:-  
Perhaps referred to as Horseshoe Cove by Arthur Ransome.

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