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Plumbland
civil parish:-   Plumbland (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   locality
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   NY14973908 (etc) 
1Km square:-   NY1439
10Km square:-   NY13

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 36 13) 
placename:-  Plumbland
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 map:- Saxton 1579
placename:-  Plumland
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmorlandiae et Cumberlandiae Comitatus ie Westmorland and Cumberland, scale about 5 miles to 1 inch, by Christopher Saxton, London, engraved by Augustinus Ryther, 1576, published 1579-1645.
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Church, symbol for a parish or village, with a parish church.  "plumland"
item:-  private collection : 2
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evidence:-   old map:- Mercator 1595 (edn?) 
placename:-  Plumland
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Northumbria, Cumberlandia, et Dunelmensis Episcopatus, ie Northumberland, Cumberland and Durham etc, scale about 6.5 miles to 1 inch, by Gerard Mercator, Duisberg, Germany, about 1595.
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"Plumland"
circle 
item:-  JandMN : 169
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evidence:-   old map:- Speed 1611 (Cmd) 
placename:-  Plumland
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Cumberland and the Ancient Citie Carlile Described, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by John Speed, 1610, published by J Sudbury and George Humble, Popes Head Alley, London, 1611-12.
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"Plumland"
circle, tower 
item:-  private collection : 16
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evidence:-   old map:- Jansson 1646
placename:-  Plumland
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Cumbria and Westmoria, ie Cumberland and Westmorland, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Jansson, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1646.
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"Plumland"
Buildings and tower. 
item:-  JandMN : 88
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evidence:-   old map:- Morden 1695 (Cmd) 
placename:-  Plumland
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Cumberland, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Robert Morden, 1695, published by Abel Swale, the Unicorn, St Paul's Churchyard, Awnsham, and John Churchill, the Black Swan, Paternoster Row, London, 1695-1715.
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"Plumland"
Circle, building and tower. 
item:-  JandMN : 90
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evidence:-   old map:- Bowen and Kitchin 1760
placename:-  Plumland
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, A New Map of the Counties of Cumberland and Westmoreland Divided into their Respective Wards, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Emanuel Bowen and Thomas Kitchin et al, published by T Bowles, Robert Sayer, and John Bowles, London, 1760.
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"Plumland"
circle, tower 
item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.14.10
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evidence:-   old map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd) 
placename:-  Plumland
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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"Plumland"
blocks, and usually a church, labelled in upright lowercase; a village 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library

evidence:-   old map:- Cooke 1802
placename:-  Plumbland
source data:-   Map, Cumberland, scale about 15.5 miles to 1 inch, by George Cooke, 1802, bound in Gray's New Book of Roads, 1824, published by Sherwood, Jones and Co, Paternoster Road, London, 1824.
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"Plumbland"
blocks, italic lowercase text, village, hamlet, locality 
item:-  Hampshire Museums : FA2000.62.2
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evidence:-   old map:- Cooper 1808
placename:-  Plumbland
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Cumberland, scale about 10.5 miles to 1 inch, drawn and engraved by Cooper, published by R Phillips, Bridge Street, Blackfriars, London, 1808.
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"Plumbland"
circle; village or hamlet 
item:-  JandMN : 86
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evidence:-   old map:- Wallis 1810 (Cmd) 
placename:-  Plumland
source data:-   Road map, hand coloured engraving, Cumberland, scale about 16 miles to 1 inch, by James Wallis, 77 Berwick Stree, Soho, London, 1810.
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"Plumland"
village, hamlet, house, ... 
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2009.81.10
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evidence:-   old map:- Otley 1818
placename:-  Plumbland
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, The District of the Lakes, Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Jonathan Otley, 1818, engraved by J and G Menzies, Edinburgh, Scotland, published by Jonathan Otley, Keswick, Cumberland, et al, 1833.
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"PLUMBLAND"
item:-  JandMN : 48.1
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evidence:-   descriptive text:- Otley 1823 (5th edn 1834) 
item:-  geologycoal
source data:-   Guide book, A Concise Description of the English Lakes, the mountains in their vicinity, and the roads by which they may be visited, with remarks on the mineralogy and geology of the district, by Jonathan Otley, published by the author, Keswick, Cumberland now Cumbria, by J Richardson, London, and by Arthur Foster, Kirkby Lonsdale, Cumbria, 1823; published 1823-49, latterly as the Descriptive Guide to the English Lakes.
image OT01P163, button  goto source
Page 163:-  "... Coal is raised at Greysouthen, Gilcrux, and Plumbland; and there are extensive fields of coal beneath the town of Whitehaven, at Workington, ..."

evidence:-   old map:- Ford 1839 map
placename:-  Plumbland
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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"Plumbland"
item:-  JandMN : 100.1
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evidence:-   old map:- Garnett 1850s-60s H
placename:-  Plumbland
source data:-   Map of the English Lakes, in Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, 1850s-60s.
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"Plumbland"
blocks, settlement 
item:-  JandMN : 82.1
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story:-  
By two cottages a mile from Plumbland is an old mulberry tree in which a royalist, Thomas Dykes, hid after the Battle of Marston Moor, 1644. He was fed by his wife and daughter who brought food from Ward Hall. His hiding in the tree was successful, but he was later captured, and died in Cockermouth Castle where he was kept prisoner.
(Ward Hall was at about NY129384.)

places:-  
NY15003869 Adam's Gill (Plumbland)
NY15033910 Croft Farm (Plumbland)
NY15013911 hydrant plate, Plumbland (Plumbland)
NY15073914 Last Man Inn (Plumbland)
NY15283923 Plumbland Evangelical Church (Plumbland)
NY14843892 Plumbland House (Plumbland) L
NY14913905 Torduff House (Plumbland)
NY14543905 village hall, Plumbland (Plumbland)
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