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placename:-
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Powter How
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parish
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Above Derwent parish, once
in Cumberland
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county:-
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Cumbria
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building/s
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coordinates:-
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NY221263
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10Km square:-
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NY22
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1Km square |
NY2226 |
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old map:- |
Ford 1839 map
-- presumably relevant
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Map of the Lake District, published in A Description of
Scenery in the Lake District, by William Ford, published by
Charles Thurnham, London, 1839. |
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Powder Hill
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Hill hachuring.
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placename:-
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Powder Hill
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county:-
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Westmoreland
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date:-
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1839
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period:-
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19th century, early; 1830s
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old text:- |
Clarke 1787
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Guide book, A Survey of the Lakes of Cumberland,
Westmorland, and Lancashire, by James Clarke, Penrith,
Cumberland, and in London etc, 1787 and 1789; and Plans of
the Lakes ... 1793. |
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Page 92:-
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... Powter-How, a pretty building, situated under a hill
covered with oaks; these shelter it entirely from the
northern blasts, and the front commands an elegant south
view of the impending mountains; a view to which the low
situation of the house gives additional grandeur, by
increasing the apparent height of the surrounding hills. ...
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placename:-
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Powter How
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date:-
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1787
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period:-
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18th century, late; 1780s
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old map:- |
Clarke 1787 map (Bassenthwaite
Lake)
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Map series, lakes and roads to the Lakes, by James
Clarke, engraved by S J Neele, 352 Strand, London, included
in A Survey of the Lakes of Cumberland, Westmorland and
Lancashire, published by James Clarke, Penrith, and in
London etc, from 1787 to 1793. |
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Powterhow / R Stephenson Esqr.
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placename:-
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Powterhow
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house
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person:-
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: Stephenson, R
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date:-
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1787
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period:-
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18th century, late; 1780s
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old map:- |
Crosthwaite 1783-94 (Bas)
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Series of maps, An Accurate Map of the Matchless Lake of
Derwent, of the Grand Lake of Windermere, of the Beautiful
Lake of Ullswater, of Broadwater or Bassenthwaite Lake, of
Coniston Lake, of Buttermere, Crummock and Loweswater Lakes,
and Pocklington's Island, by Peter Crosthwaite, Kendal,
Cumberland now Cumbria, 1783 to 1794. |
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Powterhow / Mr. Joseph Gibson's
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2 houses shown.
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placename:-
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Powterhow
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house
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person:-
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: Gibson, Joseph
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date:-
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1783=1794
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period:-
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18th century, late; 1780s; 1790s
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Powterhow Wood, Above
Derwent |
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Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2013
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