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Broad Ness, Bassenthwaite
Broad Ness
site name:-   Bassenthwaite Lake
civil parish:-   Bassenthwaite (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   headland
coordinates:-   NY21862971 (etc) 
1Km square:-   NY2129
10Km square:-   NY22
evidence:-   old map:- Crosthwaite 1783-94 (Bas) 
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, An Accurate Map of Broadwater or Bassenthwaite Lake, scale about 3 inches to 1 mile, by Peter Crosthwaite, Keswick, Cumberland, 1783, version published 1800.
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item:-  Armitt Library : 1959.191.4
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evidence:-   old text:- Clarke 1787
placename:-  Broadness
source data:-   Guide book, A Survey of the Lakes of Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire, written and published by James Clarke, Penrith, Cumberland, and in London etc, 1787; published 1787-93.
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Page 98:-  "..."
"... A little further [south of Scar Ness] is Broadness; it is also a round hill, jutting into the Lake, as is Bonas, (see plate VIII.) but neither of them so beautiful as Scarn-House, or so rich soil."
evidence:-   old map:- Clarke 1787 map (Bassenthwaite Lake) 
source data:-   Map, A Map of Broadwater and its Environs, ie Bassenthwaite Lake, scale about 6.5 ins to 1 mile, by James Clarke, engraved by Neele, 352 Strand, published by James Clarke, Penrith, Cumberland and in London etc, 1787.
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item:-  private collection : 10.8
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