Old Cumbria Gazetteer

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	salt spring, Above Derwent
locality:-	Manesty Nook
locality:-	Manesty
civil parish:-	Above Derwent (formerly Cumberland)
county:-	Cumbria
locality type:-	salt spring
locality type:-	spring
locality type:-	spa (?)
locality type:-	well (?)
coordinates:-	NY24841932 (?)
1Km square:-	NY2419
10Km square:-	NY21
SummaryText:-	There is another spring which might be the salt spring, at NY24811946.
references:-	Crosthwaite 1783-94
evidence:-	old map:- Crosthwaite 1783-94 (Der)
source data:-	Map, uncoloured engraving, An Accurate Map of the Matchless Lake of Derwent, ie Derwent Water, scale about 3 inches to 1 mile, by Peter Crosthwaite, Keswick, Cumberland, 1783, version published 1800. CT2NY21N.jpg "Earl of Egremont's / Salt Spring" item:-  Armitt Library : 1959.191.3 Image © see bottom of page
evidence:-	old text:- Clarke 1787
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.   goto source Page 83:-  "..." "There is another spaw of the like kind on Newland's-Fell; it lyes on the road-side, at Manesty-Nook, (see plate VI.)"
evidence:-	descriptive text:- Otley 1823 (5th edn 1834)  item:-  geology
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.   goto source Page 154:-  "... A salt spring near the Grange in Borrowdale, has anciently been in some repute for its medicinal qualities; another has been more recently discovered in working a lead mine near Derwent Lake. They both issue from veins in this rock, but their source remains unknown."

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