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Highpark, Loweswater
Highpark
locality:-   Parks
locality:-   Loweswater
civil parish:-   Loweswater (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   NY14502026
1Km square:-   NY1420
10Km square:-   NY12
SummaryText:-   The positions of Highpark and Lowpark relative to the Park Beck are interesting.


photograph
BVE97.jpg (taken 17.8.2011)  

evidence:-   old map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd) 
placename:-  Parks
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, 3x2 sheets, The County of Cumberland, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, by Thomas Donald, engraved and published by Joseph Hodskinson, 29 Arundel Street, Strand, London, 1774.
image
D4NY12SW.jpg
"Parks"
block or blocks, labelled in lowercase; a hamlet or just a house 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library

evidence:-   possibly descriptive text:- West 1778 (11th edn 1821) 
source data:-   Guide book, A Guide to the Lakes, by Thomas West, published by William Pennington, Kendal, Cumbria once Westmorland, and in London, 1778 to 1821.
image WS21P140, button  goto source
Page 140:-  "... The south end [of Loweswater] is overlooked by lofty Mellbreak, at whose foot, a white house within some grass inclosures, under a few trees, stands in the point of beauty."

evidence:-   old map:- Crosthwaite 1783-94 (But/Cru/Low) 
placename:-  High Park
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, An Accurate Map of Buttermere, Crummock and Loweswater Lakes, scale about 3 inches to 1 mile, by Peter Crosthwaite, Keswick, Cumberland, 1794, version published 1800.
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CT8NY12K.jpg
"High Park"
item:-  Armitt Library : 1959.191.2
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  High Park
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"HIGH PARK AND BARNS ADJOINING / / / LOWESWATER / ALLERDALE / CUMBRIA / II / 72691 / NY1450820263"

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