Old Cumbria Gazetteer - Powter How, Above Derwent

Powter How, Above Derwent

Powter How

civil parish:-

Above Derwent (formerly Cumberland)

county:-

Cumbria

locality type:-

locality

locality type:-

buildings

coordinates:-

NY22032643 (etc)

1Km square:-

NY2226

10Km square:-

NY22

evidence:-

old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 55 16)
placename:- Powter How

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:- Crosthwaite 1783-94 (Bas)
placename:- Powterhow

source data:-

Map, uncoloured engraving, An Accurate Map of Broadwater or Bassenthwaite Lake, scale about 3 inches to 1 mile, by Peter Crosthwaite, Keswick, Cumberland, 1783, version published 1800.

CT6NY22I.jpg
"Powterhow / Mr. Joseph Gibson's"
2 houses shown.
item:- Armitt Library : 1959.191.4
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-

old text:- Clarke 1787
placename:- Powter How

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.

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Page 92:- "... 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. ..."

evidence:-

old map:- Clarke 1787 map (Bassenthwaite Lake)
placename:- Powterhow

source data:-

Map, A Map of Broadwater and its Environs, ie Bassenthwaite Lake, scale about 6.5 ins to 1 mile, by James Clarke, engraved by Neele, 352 Strand, published by James Clarke, Penrith, Cumberland and in London etc, 1787.

evidence:-

presumably old map:- Ford 1839 map
placename:- Powder Hill

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.

places:-

NY22032649 post box, Powter How (Above Derwent)

NY22052614 Seat Howe (Above Derwent)

NY22072641 Swan House (Above Derwent)

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