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Heathwaite, Coniston
Heathwaite
civil parish:-   Coniston (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   SD295968
1Km square:-   SD2996
10Km square:-   SD29

evidence:-   possibly old text:- Green 1814
placename:-  Thwaite
source data:-   Set of prints, soft ground etchings, Sixty Small Prints, with text, A Description of a Series of Sixty Small Prints, by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1814.
image GN09p04, button  goto source
page 4:-  "... Thwaite immediately under it [Old Man of Coniston], and apparently near the water's edge, was the residence of the late David Kirby, Esq. the proprietor."

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