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Cartmel Sands, Morecambe Bay
Cartmel Sands
locality:-   Morecambe Bay
civil parish:-   Lower Allithwaite (formerly Lancashire)
civil parish:-   Lower Holker (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   sands
coordinates:-   SD33237651 (etc) 
1Km square:-   SD3376
10Km square:-   SD37
evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Lan 12 9) 
placename:-  Cartmel Sands
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 12 13) 
OS County Series (Lan 17 5) 
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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item:-  private collection : 2
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evidence:-   old map:- Mercator 1595 (edn?) 
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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foreshore sands 
item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.14.3
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evidence:-   poem:- Drayton 1612/1622 text
placename:-  Ken Sands
item:-  placename, Kent Sands
source data:-   Poem, Poly Olbion, by Michael Drayton, published by published by John Marriott, John Grismand and Thomas Dewe, and others? London, part 1 1612, part 2 1622.
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page 137:-  "...
Upon the East from these [Duddon and Leven], cleere Ken her beautie showes,
...
Her name upon those Sands doth liberally bequeath,
Whereas the Muse awhile may sit her downe to breath,
..."
evidence:-   old map:- Jansson 1646
placename:-  Ken Sandes
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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"Ken Sandes"
Foreshore drawn with moire effect. 
item:-  JandMN : 88
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evidence:-   old map:- Sanson 1679
placename:-  Ken Sandes
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Ancien Royaume de Northumberland aujourdhuy Provinces de Nort, ie the Ancient Kingdom of Northumberland or the Northern Provinces, scale about 9.5 miles to 1 inch, by Nicholas Sanson, Paris, France, 1679.
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"Ken Sandes"
foreshore sands 
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2007.38.15
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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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item:-  JandMN : 24
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evidence:-   old map:- Laurie and Whittle 1806
placename:-  Leven Sands
source data:-   Road map, Completion of the Roads to the Lakes, scale about 10 miles to 1 inch, by Nathaniel Coltman? 1806, published by Robert H Laurie, 53 Fleet Street, London, 1834.
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"Leven Sands"
sands in estuary 
item:-  private collection : 18.18
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evidence:-   perhaps descriptive text:- Ford 1839 (3rd edn 1843) 
placename:-  Cartmel Bay
source data:-   Guide book, A Description of Scenery in the Lake District, by Rev William Ford, published by Charles Thurnam, Carlisle, by W Edwards, 12 Ave Maria Lane, Charles Tilt, Fleet Street, William Smith, 113 Fleet Street, London, by Currie and Bowman, Newcastle, by Bancks and Co, Manchester, by Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh, and by Sinclair, Dumfries, 1839.
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Page 5:-  "[Dalton] ... Is situated in a valley which stretches about four miles from it, in one large, sweeping and narrow curve, till it opens on a noble view of Cartmel bay. ..."
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