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Holly Hill, Bowness-on-Windermere
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Holly Hill
locality:-   Bowness-on-Windermere
civil parish:-   Windermere (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   SD40399705
1Km square:-   SD4097
10Km square:-   SD49

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 32 11) 
placename:-  Holly Hill
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:-   descriptive text:- West 1778 (11th edn 1821) 
placename:-  Holly Hill
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 WS21P071, button  goto source
Page 71, footnote:-  "On the banks of Windermere-water, have been lately built many elegant villas; by ... Mr. Bellasis, Holly-Hill; ... These objects, as works of art, most of which are done in styles suitable to their situation, give an air of consequence to the country, ..."

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