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Hill House, Salta
Hill House
locality:-   Salta
civil parish:-   Holme St Cuthbert (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   NY08254548
1Km square:-   NY0845
10Km square:-   NY04

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 27 14) 
placename:-  Hill House
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 text:- Gents Mag
item:-  sea mark
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.
image G7480291, button  goto source
Gentleman's Magazine 1748 p.291 
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"... Hill-house is a sea-mark, because it stands pretty high, and is made use of in the same manner almost as Dubmill-house, to avoid dangerous sand, which stretches almost from Workington-bar to the Scotch coast."

evidence:-   old map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd) 
placename:-  Hill House
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.
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"Hill / House"
block or blocks, labelled in lowercase; a hamlet or just a house 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library

evidence:-   old map:- Ford 1839 map
placename:-  Hill House
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.
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"Hill Ho."
item:-  JandMN : 100.1
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