Old Cumbria Gazetteer

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	placename:-	Morecambe Bay
	parish	Aldingham parish, once in Lancashire
	parish	Lower Allithwaite parish, once in Lancashire
	parish	Lower Holker parish, once in Lancashire
	county:-	Cumbria
		bay
	coordinates:-	SD36
	10Km square:-	SD36
	county:-	Lancashire
		bay
	1Km square	SD3060
	guide book:-	Barber 1873
		Guide book, The Tourist's Picturesque Guide to Furness Abbey, the Vicinity, and Lakes Coniston and Windermere, by Henry Barber, published by The Graphotyping Co, 7 Garrick Street and Simpkin, Marshall and Co, Stationers' Hall Court, London, and by J Atkinson, King Street, Ulverston, Cumberland, 5th edn about 1873.
		HEAD OF MORECAMBE BAY, FROM LEVEN VIADUCT
	date:-	1873
	period:-	19th century, late; 1870s
	old map:-	Garnett 1850s-60s H
		Map of the English Lakes, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, 1850s-60s.
		MORECAMBE BAY
		area
		MORECAMBE BAY
	placename:-	Morecambe Bay
	date:-	1850=1869
	period:-	19th century, late; 1850s; 1860s
	old map:-	Ford 1839 map
		Map of the Lake District, published in A Description of Scenery in the Lake District, by William Ford, published by Charles Thurnham, London, 1839.
		MORECAMBE BAY
	placename:-	Morecambe Bay
	county:-	Lancashire
	date:-	1839
	period:-	19th century, early; 1830s
	old map:-	Ford 1839 map
		Map of the Lake District, published in A Description of Scenery in the Lake District, by William Ford, published by Charles Thurnham, London, 1839.
		MORECAMBE BAY
	placename:-	Morecambe Bay
	county:-	Lancashire
	date:-	1839
	period:-	19th century, early; 1830s
	old map:-	Ford 1839 map
		Map of the Lake District, published in A Description of Scenery in the Lake District, by William Ford, published by Charles Thurnham, London, 1839.
		MORECAMBE BAY
	placename:-	Morecambe Bay
	county:-	Lancashire
	date:-	1839
	period:-	19th century, early; 1830s
	old map:-	Ford 1839 map
		Map of the Lake District, published in A Description of Scenery in the Lake District, by William Ford, published by Charles Thurnham, London, 1839.
		MORECAMBE BAY
	placename:-	Morecambe Bay
	county:-	Lancashire
	date:-	1839
	period:-	19th century, early; 1830s
	descriptive text:-	Ford 1839 (3rd edn 1843)
		Description of Scenery in the Lake District, by William Ford, published by Charles Thurnham, London, et al, 1839; published 1839-52.
		Page 152:-
		...
		... The ruins of Hilslack and Arnside towers are not very distant; they seem to have been erected to guard the Bay of Morecambe. ...
	placename:-	Bay of Morecambe
	date:-	1839
	period:-	19th century, early; 1830s
	old map:-	Perrot 1823
		Map, Cumberland, Westmoreland, scale about 38 miles to 1 inch, by Aristide Michel Perrot, engraved by Migneret, 1823, published by Etienne Ledoux, 9 Rue Guenegaud, Paris, France, 1824; published 1824-48.
		B. de Morecambe
		bay
	placename:-	Baie de Morecambe
	date:-	1823
	period:-	19th century, early; 1820s
	old map:-	Cooke 1802
		Maps, Westmoreland, Cumberland, etc, now Cumbria, by George Alexander Cooke, London, 1802-10; published 1802-24.
		BAY OF MORECAMBE
		bay
	placename:-	Bay of Morecambe
	county:-	Lancashire
	date:-	1802
	period:-	19th century, early; 1800s
	old text:-	Camden 1789 (Gough Additions)
		Britannia, or A Chorographical Description of the Flourishing Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, by William Camden, 1586, translated from the 1607 Latin edition by Richard Gough, published London, 1789.
		Page 142:-
		... Ptolemy's MORICAMBE (sic) is Cartmel bay, perhaps from British Moreb, a haven and Cain white or beautiful, from the white rocks on this coast.
		...
		Page 153:-
		... Helslack tower, now in ruins. ... Arnside tower, the walls thereof not yet much decayed. These towers seem to have been erected to guard the bay; as there are on the opposite side the vestiges of Broughton tower and Bazin tower, so there is Castle head upon the island in Lindal Pow, and higher up the moses of Methop, Ulva, and Foulsham were inaccessible. In the centre of the bay is Peel castle.
	placename:-	Cartmel Bay
	other name:-	Moricambe
	date:-	1789
	period:-	18th century, late; 1780s
	old text:-	Mackenzie 1776
		Charts, and sailing directions, Nautical Descriptions of the West Coast of Great Britain, Bristol Channel to Cape Wrath, by Murdoch Mackenzie, published London, 1776.
		Page 18:-
		... ...
		KENT River.
		The River Kent, between Sunderland and the Piel-of-Foudray, is very dangerous, and not to be attempted by any stranger, except in necessity; as there are neither buoys, perches, or distinct land-marks to point out the channels to one that is not particularly acquainted. When a vessel is forced into this Bay, the only channels to be pursued are, either Furness, or Grange; the former on the west side of Cartmel-wharfs Bank, which dries about low-water only, the other on the E. side of it: at four hours of flood, a vessel, that draws ten or twelve feet, will have sufficient water over Cartmel-wharfs, near the channel. These channels often discover themselves, by the appearance of the water in them; a good look-out is therefore necessary here.
	date:-	1776
	period:-	18th century, late; 1770s
	old map:-	Stukeley 1723
		Map of roman roads through Britain, scale about 55 miles to 1 inch, derived from the Antonine Itineraries, plotted by William Stukeley, 1723, published London, 1724.
	date:-	1723
	period:-	18th century, early; 1720s
	old map:-	Morden 1695 (EW)
		Maps, Westmorland, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, and Cumberland, scale about 3 miles to 1 inch, by Robert Morden, 1695.
		goto source.
		bay
	date:-	1695
	period:-	17th century, late; 1690s
	old map:-	Sanson 1679
		Map, Ancien Royaume de Northumberland aujourdhuy Provinces de Nort, ie the Ancient Kingdom of Northumberland or the Northern Provinces, scale about miles to 1 inch, by Nicholas Sanson, Paris, France, 1679.
		bay
	date:-	1679
	period:-	17th century, late; 1670s
	old map:-	Ogilby 1675 (plate 38)
		Road book, Britannia, strip road maps, with sections in Westmorland and Cumberland etc, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, by John Ogilby, London, 1675; and a general map of England and Wales.
		goto source.
		In mile 237, Lancashire.
		Turning left off the road:-
		to the water side
	date:-	1675
	period:-	17th century, late; 1670s
	old map:-	Speed 1611 (Cum/EW)
		Maps, The Countie Westmorland and Kendale the Cheif Towne, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, and Cumberland and the Ancient Citie Carlile, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by John Speed, London, 1611; published 1611-1770.
		bay
	date:-	1611
	period:-	17th century, early; 1610s
	source:-	Lloyd 1573 -- probably relevant
		Map, Angliae Regni, Kingdom of England, with Wales, scale about 24 miles to 1 inch, authored by Humphrey Lloyd, Denbigh, Clwyd, drawn and engraved by Abraham Ortelius, Netherlands, 1573.
	date:-	1573
	period:-	16th century, late; 1570s
	old map:-	Ptolemy 1578
		Prima Europe tabula, Europe Map 1, Ptolemy map of roman Britain, by Gerard Mercator, 1578.
	date:-	1578
	period:-	16th century, late; 1570s
	old map:-	Ptolemy 1793
		Map, Albion et Hibernia Britannicae Insulae, from the data of Claudius Ptolemy, 2nd century, on the example of Gerard Mercator, 16th century, scale about 55 miles to 1 inch, engraved by Basire, published for the Society of Antiquaries, 1793.
		Moricambe AEstuarium
	placename:-	Moricambe AEstuarium
	date:-	1793
	period:-	18th century, late; 1780s
	old map:-	Horsley 1732
		NB: Horsley's ideas are not all accepted today.
		Map, Britannia Antiqua, by Johanne Horsley, 1732. (nb this is tentative data)
		Morecambe AEstuar / Morecambe Bay
	placename:-	Morecambe AEstuar
	other name:-	Morecambe Bay
	date:-	1732
	period:-	18th century, late; 1780s
	old print:-	Bogg 1898
		Book, Lakeland and Ribblesdale, OR A Thousand Miles of Wandering along the Roman Wall, the Old Border Region, Lakeland, and Ribblesdale, by Edmund Bogg, publishd by Edmund Bogg, 3 Woodhouse Lane, and James Miles, Guildford Street, Leeds, Yorkshire, 1898.
		Print, engraving, Cockle Gatherers on Cartmel Sands, Morecambe Bay, by Gilbert Foster, published by Edmund Bogg, 3 Woodhouse Lane, and James Miles, Guildford Street, Leeds, Yorkshire, 1898.
		Included on p.220 of Lakeland and Ribblesdale, by Edmund Bogg.
	person:-	cockle gatherer
	date:-
	period:-	19th century, late
	text:-	Rivet and Smith 1979
		Morecambe Bay (whose name is an antiquarian revival).
	placename:-	Moricambe
	other name:-	Moriacambe
		photographs
		Cockles are scooped up from the sand by a fork with three bent iron times, a craam. The jumbo is pounded on the and to make the cockles rise towards the surface.
		courtesy of Lancaster Museums.
		Morecambe Bay -- Aldingham and Lower Allithwaite etc -- Cumbria -- Lancashire / -- Cockling; cart, basket of cockles, etc -- 6.9.2013
		Morecambe Bay -- Aldingham and Lower Allithwaite etc -- Cumbria -- Lancashire / -- Cockling; cart, basket of cockles, jumbo, etc -- 6.9.2013
		Cartmel Wharf, Lower Holker
		coast, Lower Holker
		Idridge Scar, Aldingham
		Lancaster Sands
		Lancaster Sound, Lower Holker
		Mort Bank, Aldingham
		Warton Sands, Lancashire
		Yeoman Wharf, Lower Holker
	Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2013

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