Old Cumbria Gazetteer

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	placename:-	Furness Fells
	parish	Colton parish, once in Lancashire
	county:-	Cumbria
		hill; fell
	coordinates:-	SD3389
	10Km square:-	SD38
	1Km square	SD3389
		Furness Fells -- Colton -- Cumbria / -- From Kirkby in Furness Station. -- 30.8.2006
	old map:-	Garnett 1850s-60s H
		Map of the English Lakes, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, 1850s-60s.
		Furness Fells
		area, hill hachuring
	placename:-	Furness Fells
	date:-	1850=1869
	period:-	19th century, late; 1850s; 1860s
	old map:-	Ford 1839 map
		Map of the Lake District, published in A Description of Scenery in the Lake District, by William Ford, published by Charles Thurnham, London, 1839.
		FURNESS FELLS
		Hill hachuring.
	placename:-	Furness Fells
	county:-	Lancashire
	date:-	1839
	period:-	19th century, early; 1830s
	old text:-	Camden 1789
		Britannia, or A Chorographical Description of the Flourishing Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, by William Camden, 1586, translated from the 1607 Latin edition by Richard Gough, published London, 1789.
		Page 131:-
		... This whole tract [Furness], except on the coast, rises in high hills and vast piles of rocks called Forness fels, among which the Britans found a secure retreat, trusting to these natural fortresses, though nothing was inaccessible to the victorious Saxons. For we find the Britans settled here 228 years after the arrival of the Saxons, because at that time Egfrid, king of Northumberland, gave St. Cuthbert the land called Carthmell, and all the Britans in it, as is related in his life. ...
		Page 132:-
		... If we read with some copies of Ptolemy SETANTIORUM λιμεν and not SETANTIORUM λνμεν I would venture to affirm that these Britans were named SETANTII.
	placename:-	Forness Fels
	person:-	: Setantii
	date:-	1789
	period:-	18th century, late; 1780s
	old map:-	West 1784 map
		A Map of the Lakes in Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire, now Cumbria, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, engraved by Paas, 53 Holborn, London, included in the Guide to the Lakes by Thomas West, published by William Pennington, Kendal, Westmorland, and in London, from the 3rd edition 1784, to 1821.
		FURNESS FELLS
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	placename:-	Furness Fells
	county:-	Lancashire
	old map:-	Crosthwaite 1783-94 (Win/Ble)
		Series of maps, An Accurate Map of the Matchless Lake of Derwent, of the Grand Lake of Windermere, of the Beautiful Lake of Ullswater, of Broadwater or Bassenthwaite Lake, of Coniston Lake, of Buttermere, Crummock and Loweswater Lakes, and Pocklington's Island, by Peter Crosthwaite, Kendal, Cumberland now Cumbria, 1783 to 1794.
		Furness Fells
		labelled small close to the lake!
	placename:-	Furness Fells
	date:-	1783=1794
	period:-	18th century, late; 1780s; 1790s
	old map:-	Bowen and Kitchin 1760
		New Map of the Counties of Cumberland and Westmoreland, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, Emanuel Bowen and Thomas Kitchin, published by T Bowles, John Bowles and Son, Robert Sayer, and John Tinney, 1760; published 1760-87.
		Fourness [Fells]
		area
		[Fourness] Fells
	placename:-	Fourness Fells
	date:-	1760
	period:-	18th century, late; 1760s
	old map:-	Simpson 1746 map (Wmd)
		Maps, Westmorland, scale about 8 miles to 1 inch, and Cumberland? in The Agreeable Historian by Samuel Simpson, printed by R Walker, Fleet Lane, London, 1746.
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		Fourness Fells
		Area.
	placename:-	Fourness Fells
	county:-	Lancashire
	date:-	1746
	period:-	18th century, early; 1740s
	descriptive text:-	Defoe 1724-26
		Travel book, Tour through England and Wales, by Daniel Defoe, published in parts, London, 1724-26.
		... the west side [of Westmorland], which borders on Cumberland, is indeed bounded by a chain of almost unpassable mountains, which, in the language of the country, are called Fells, and these are called Fourness Fells, from the famous promontory bearing that name, ...
	placename:-	Fourness Fells
	date:-	1724=1726
	period:-	18th century, early; 1720s
	descriptive text:-	Fiennes 1698
		Travel book, manuscript record of Journeys through England including parts of the Lake District, by Celia Fiennes, 1698.
		... a standing lake [Windermere] encompass'd with vast high hills that are perfect rocks and barren ground of a vast height from which many little springs out of the rock does bubble up and descend down and fall into this water; ... these hills which they call Furness Fells a long row continued some miles and some of them are call'd Donum Fells and soe from the places they adjoyne to are named, but they hold the whole length of the water which is 10 mile; they have some parts of them that has wayes that they can by degrees in a compass ascend them and so they go onward in the countrys; ...
		...
		Their little carts I was speakeing of they use hereabout, the wheeles are fast'ned to the axletree and so turn altogether, they hold not above what our wheele barrows would carry at three or four tymes, which the girles and boys and women does go about with, drawn by one horse to carry any thing they want; here is a great deal of good grass and summer corn and pastures its rich land in the bottoms, as one may call them considering the vast hills above them on all sides, yet they contain a number of lesser hills one below another, so that tho' at one looke you think it but a little land every body has, yet it being so full of hills its many acres which if at length in a plain would extend a vast way; ...
	placename:-	Furness Fells
	other name:-	Donum Fells
	date:-	1698
	period:-	17th century, late
	period:-	1690s
	descriptive text:-	Fiennes 1698
		Travel book, manuscript record of Journeys through England including parts of the Lake District, by Celia Fiennes, 1698.
		on the Castle tower walking quite round by the battlements I saw ... into Westmoreland to the great hills there call'd Furness Fells or Hills being a string of vast high hills together; ...
	other name:-	Furness Hills
	date:-	1698
	period:-	17th century, late
	period:-	1690s
	old map:-	Morden 1695 (Cmd)
		Maps, Westmorland, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, and Cumberland, scale about 3 miles to 1 inch, by Robert Morden, 1695.
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		Fourness Fels
		Area, no symbol.
	placename:-	Fourness Fels
	county:-	Lancashire
	date:-	1695
	period:-	17th century, late; 1690s
	old map:-	Morden 1695 (Wmd)
		Maps, Westmorland, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, and Cumberland, scale about 3 miles to 1 inch, by Robert Morden, 1695.
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		Fournes Fells
		Hillocks.
	placename:-	Fournes Fells
	county:-	Lancashire
	date:-	1695
	period:-	17th century, late; 1690s
	old map:-	Seller 1694 (Wmd)
		Map, Westmorland, now Cumbria, scale about 8 miles to 1 inch, by John Seller, 1694; editions to 1787.
		Fourness Fells
		no symbol; hills
	placename:-	Fourness Fells
	county:-	Lancashire
	date:-	1694
	period:-	17th century, late; 1690s
	old map:-	Jansson 1646
		Map, Cumbria et Westmoria, or Cumberland and Westmorland, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Jansson, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1646; published 1646-1724.
		Fournes fells
		Labelling the area, no symbol.
	placename:-	Fournes Fells
	county:-	Lancashire
	date:-	1646
	period:-	17th century, early; 1640s
	poem:-	Drayton 1612/1622 text
		Poem, Polyolbion, by Michael Drayton, published 1612, part 2 with Cumbria published by John Marriott, John Grismand, and Thomas Dewe, London, 1622.
		page 136:-
		page 165:-
	date:-	1612; 1622
	period:-	17th century, early; 1610s; 1620s
	old map:-	Speed 1611 (Cmd)
		Maps, The Countie Westmorland and Kendale the Cheif Towne, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, and Cumberland and the Ancient Citie Carlile, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by John Speed, London, 1611; published 1611-1770.
		Part of Fournes Felds
		hillocks; Lancashire
	placename:-	Fournes Felds
	date:-	1611
	period:-	17th century, early; 1610s
	old map:-	Speed 1611 (Wmd)
		Maps, The Countie Westmorland and Kendale the Cheif Towne, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, and Cumberland and the Ancient Citie Carlile, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by John Speed, London, 1611; published 1611-1770.
		Fournes Fells
		hillocks
	placename:-	Fournes Fells
	date:-	1611
	period:-	17th century, early; 1610s
	old map:-	Saxton 1579
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		Fournes fells
	placename:-	Fournes Fells
	county:-	Lancastria
		hill
	date:-	1576
	period:-	16th century, late; 1570s
	hearsay	Shepherds in the Furness Fells fed sheep on tender sprouts of holly. Tracts of common were covered with holly trees for this purpose. The mutton is said to have had an attractive flavour.
		Knott End hill, Dunnerdale-with-Seathwaite
		Selside, Colton
	Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2013

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