Hill Top, St John's Castlerigg etc | ||
Hill Top | ||
Hill Top Farm | ||
locality:- | St John's in the Vale | |
civil parish:- | St John's Castlerigg and Wythburn (formerly Cumberland) | |
county:- | Cumbria | |
locality type:- | buildings | |
coordinates:- | NY31722300 | |
1Km square:- | NY3123 | |
10Km square:- | NY32 | |
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BND96.jpg (taken 5.2.2007) |
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evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 64 8) placename:- Hill Top |
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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. |
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evidence:- | old map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd) placename:- Hill Top |
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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. D4NY32SW.jpg "Hill Top" no symbol item:- Carlisle Library : Map 2 Image © Carlisle Library |
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evidence:- | descriptive text:- West 1778 (11th edn 1821) |
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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. goto source Addendum; Mr Gray's Journal, 1769 Page 202:- "..." "Oct. 2. I set out at ten for Keswick [from Penrith], ...passed ... Hill-top, the large, though low mansion of the Gasgarth's, now a farm-house, seated on an eminence among the woods, under a steep fell, was what appeared the most conspicuous, and beside it a great rock, like some ancient tower nodding to its fall." |
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evidence:- | old text:- Clarke 1787 placename:- Hill Top |
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source data:- | Guide book, A Survey of the Lakes of Cumberland, Westmorland,
and Lancashire, written and published by James Clarke, Penrith,
Cumberland, and in London etc, 1787; published 1787-93. goto source Page 61:- "... Hill-Top, an handsome, small, old building, belonging to J. Gaskarth, Esq. ..." |
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