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Scroggs, Loughrigg
Scroggs
Nook House
locality:-   Loughrigg
civil parish:-   Lakes (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   NY34150498
1Km square:-   NY3404
10Km square:-   NY30


photograph
BNL31.jpg (taken 26.3.2007)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 26 5) 
placename:-  Scroggs
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.
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evidence:-   old print:- Otley 1823 (8th edn 1849) 
source data:-   The title page illustration of Otley's guide book is Scroggs Farm, Loughrigg, where Jonathan Otley was born.
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item:-  Armitt Library : A1180
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   old map:- 
placename:-  Scroggs, The
source data:-   Map, manuscript plan of house and fields, The Scroggs, Loughrigg, Westmorland, by Jonathan Otley, about 1840s.
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Map, manuscript plan of house and fields, The Scroggs, Loughrigg, Westmorland, by Jonathan Otley, about 1840s. 
The property includes Old Close, House Close, Field Head and Scroggs Field in which is 
ms at upper left:-  "THE SCROGGS"
item:-  private collection : 306
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evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Scroggs
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"SCROGGS / / / LAKES / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 452639 / NY3414804983"

hearsay:-  
Jonathan Otley, clockmaker, geologist, map maker, Keswick, born here 10 January 1766.

reference:-  
Scroggs

Adams, Douglas & Lloyd, John: 1990: Deeper Meaning of Life, The: Pan Books &Faber and Faber

personal
person:-   geologistclockmaker
 : Otley, Jonathan
place:-   birthplace
date:-   1766

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