Old Cumbria Gazetteer - Rusland Pool

Rusland Pool

runs into:-

Leven Estuary

civil parish:-

Colton (formerly Lancashire)

county:-

Cumbria

locality type:-

river

1Km square:-

SD3487 (etc)

10Km square:-

SD38

BPO45.jpg At Pool Bridge.
(taken 8.8.2008)
photograph

BPO46.jpg At Pool Bridge.
(taken 8.8.2008)

evidence:-

old map:- OS County Series (Lan 8)

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.
"Spring Tides flow to this point"

evidence:-

old map:- Mercator 1595 (edn?)
placename:-

source data:-

Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmorlandia, Lancastria, Cestria etc, ie Westmorland, Lancashire, Cheshire etc, scale about 10.5 miles to 1 inch, by Gerard Mercator, Duisberg, Germany, 1595, edition 1613-16.

MER5LanA.jpg
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double line with stream lines; river, running into the sea
item:- Armitt Library : 2008.14.3
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-

old map:- Sanson 1679

source data:-

Map, hand coloured engraving, Ancien Royaume de Northumberland aujourdhuy Provinces de Nort, ie the Ancient Kingdom of Northumberland or the Northern Provinces, scale about 9.5 miles to 1 inch, by Nicholas Sanson, Paris, France, 1679.

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SAN2Cm.jpg
tapering wiggly line; river
item:- Dove Cottage : 2007.38.15
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-

old map:- West 1784 map

source data:-

Map, hand coloured engraving, A Map of the Lakes in Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, engraved by Paas, 53 Holborn, London, about 1784.

Ws02SD38.jpg
item:- Armitt Library : A1221.1
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-

descriptive text:- Baker 1802

source data:-

Perspective road map with sections in Lancashire, Westmorland, and Cumberland, by J Baker, London 1802.
pp.25-26:- "... Cartmel ... between two bays of the sea, the one formed by the river Kenken, the other by the conflux of some smaller streams, there falling from the great Westmorland and Cumberland fells into the Irish sea. ..."

evidence:-

old map:- Garnett 1850s-60s H

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.

CER96.jpg Near Rusland Pool Bridge.
(taken 11.3.2016)
photograph

CER97.jpg Depth gauge,
(taken 11.3.2016)

places:-

SD34428639 Crooks Bridge (Colton)

SD32988429 New Pool Bridge (Colton / Haverthwaite)

SD33358502 Pool Bridge (Colton / Haverthwaite)

SD33858860 Rusland Pool Bridge (Colton) L

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