Old Cumbria Gazetteer - Great Strickland

Great Strickland

civil parish:-

Great Strickland (formerly Westmorland)

county:-

Cumbria

locality type:-

locality

locality type:-

buildings

coordinates:-

NY55762285 (etc)

1Km square:-

NY5522

10Km square:-

NY52

BRT36.jpg (taken 22.10.2009)
photograph

BVW24.jpg (taken 3.2.2012)

evidence:-

old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 8 10)
placename:- Great Strickland
placename:- Strickland, Great

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:- Saxton 1579
placename:- Stricklandes

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.

Sax9NY52.jpg
Tower, symbol for a house, hall, tower, etc. "Stricklandes"
item:- private collection : 2
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evidence:-

old map:- Speed 1611 (Wmd)
placename:- Striklandes

source data:-

Map, hand coloured engraving, The Countie Westmorland and Kendale the Cheif Towne, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Speed, 1610, published by George Humble, Popes Head Alley, London, 1611-12.

SP14NY52.jpg
"Striklandes"
circle, building and tower
item:- Armitt Library : 2008.14.5
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evidence:-

table of distances:- Simons 1635
placename:- Stricklandes

source data:-

Table of distances, uncoloured engraving, Westmerland ie Westmorland, with a thumbnail map, scale about 42 miles to 1 inch, by Mathew Simons, published in A Direction for the English Traviller, 1635.

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SIM3.jpg
"Stricklandes N"
and tabulated distances
item:- private collection : 50.39
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evidence:-

old map:- Jansson 1646
placename:- Stricklandes

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.

JAN3NY52.jpg
"Stricklandes"
Buildings and tower.
item:- JandMN : 88
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evidence:-

probably old map:- Ogilby 1675 (plate 38)
placename:- Strickland

source data:-

Road strip map, hand coloured engraving, continuation of the Road from London to Carlisle, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, by John Ogilby, London, 1675.

OG38m272.jpg
In mile 273, Westmorland.
Turning right:- "to Strickland"
item:- JandMN : 21
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evidence:-

old map:- Seller 1694 (Wmd)
placename:- Striklandes

source data:-

Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmorland, scale about 8 miles to 1 inch, by John Seller, 1694.

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SEL7.jpg
"Striklandes"
circle, italic lowercase text; settlement or house
item:- Dove Cottage : 2007.38.87
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evidence:-

old map:- Morden 1695 (Wmd)
placename:- Strictland Magna

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.

MD10NY52.jpg
"Strictland mag"
Circle.
item:- JandMN : 24
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evidence:-

possibly old map:- Simpson 1746 map (Wmd)
placename:- Stricland

source data:-

Map, uncoloured engraving, Westmorland, scale about 8 miles to 1 inch, printed by R Walker, Fleet Lane, London, 1746.

SMP2NYL.jpg
"Stricland"
item:- Dove Cottage : 2007.38.59
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evidence:-

old map:- Bowen and Kitchin 1760
placename:- Strickland Magna

source data:-

Map, hand coloured engraving, A New Map of the Counties of Cumberland and Westmoreland Divided into their Respective Wards, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Emanuel Bowen and Thomas Kitchin et al, published by T Bowles, Robert Sayer, and John Bowles, London, 1760.

BO18NY41.jpg
"Strickland Mag."
circle, tower
item:- Armitt Library : 2008.14.10
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evidence:-

old map:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd)
placename:- Great Strickland
placename:- Strickland, Great

source data:-

Map, 4 sheets, The County of Westmoreland, scale 1 inch to 1 mile, surveyed 1768, and engraved and published by Thomas Jefferys, London, 1770.

J5NY52SE.jpg
"Great Strickland"
blocks, labelled in upright lowercase text; settlement; town?
item:- National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland

evidence:-

old map:- Cary 1789 (edn 1805)
placename:- Great Strickland
placename:- Strickland, Great

source data:-

Map, uncoloured engraving, Westmoreland, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Cary, London, 1789; edition 1805.

CY24NY52.jpg
"Great Strickland"
block/s, labelled in italic lowercase; house, or hamlet
item:- JandMN : 129
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evidence:-

old map:- Cooper 1808
placename:- Great Strickland

source data:-

Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmoreland ie Westmorland, scale about 9 miles to 1 inch, by H Cooper, 1808, published by R Phillips, Bridge Street, Blackfriars, London, 1808.

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COP4.jpg
"Gt. Strickland"
circle; village or hamlet
item:- Dove Cottage : 2007.38.53
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evidence:-

perhaps old text:- Gents Mag

source data:-

Magazine, The Gentleman's Magazine or Monthly Intelligencer or Historical Chronicle, published by Edward Cave under the pseudonym Sylvanus Urban, and by other publishers, London, monthly from 1731 to 1922.

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Gentleman's Magazine 1825 part 1 p.513
From the Compendium of County History:- "Crackenthorpe, Richard, controversial divine, Strickland, 1587."

evidence:-

old text:- Gents Mag 1825

source data:-

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Gentleman's Magazine 1825 part 1 p.514
From the Compendium of County History:- "Strickland, William de, Bishop of Carlisle, Great Strickland, 1[ ]96."

evidence:-

old map:- Ford 1839 map
placename:- Great Strickland

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.