Old Cumbria Gazetteer - Swineside, Mungrisdale

Swineside, Mungrisdale

Swineside

civil parish:-

Mungrisdale (formerly Cumberland)

county:-

Cumbria

locality type:-

locality

locality type:-

buildings

coordinates:-

NY34103246 (etc)

1Km square:-

NY3432

10Km square:-

NY33

BOK95.jpg (taken 6.2.2008)

evidence:-

old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 48 13)
placename:- Swineside

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:-

probably old text:- Gents Mag
placename:- Swinstead
item:- sunshine

source data:-

Magazine, The Gentleman's Magazine or Monthly Intelligencer or Historical Chronicle, published by Edward Cave under the pseudonym Sylvanus Urban, and by other publishers, London, monthly from 1731 to 1922.

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Gentleman's Magazine 1747 p.522 "[on the way to Caldbeck Fells] ... the neighbourhood of Mose-dale; here I found villages in the narrow bottoms, that feel no more benefit from the solar rays for two months about the winter solstice, than the old Cimmerians, or the Laplanders who inhabit about the North Cape of Norway."
"Swinsted on Cauda is a strong instance that the property of the Artic circle is not confined to those unhappy regions which lie within 23 degrees of the pole, especially with regard to the solar light."

evidence:-

old map:- Gents Mag 1747
placename:- Swinsted

source data:-

Map, uncoloured engraving, perspective view, Caudbeck Fells ie Caldbeck Fells, scale about 1+ miles to 1 inch, published in the Gentleman's Magazine, 1747.

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"Swinsted"
buildings
item:- Carlisle Library : Map 43
Image © Carlisle Library

evidence:-

old text:- Gents Mag 1747
placename:- Swinsted

source data:-

Map, perspective view, Caudbeck Fells ie Caldbeck Fells, scale about 1+ miles to 1 inch, and descriptive text, published in the Gentleman's Magazine, November 1747.

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Page 522:- "... villages in the narrow bottoms, that feel no more benefit from the solar rays for two months about the winter solstice, than the old Cimmerians, or the Laplanders who inhabit about the North Cape of Norway. Swinsted on Cauda is a strong instance that the property of the Artic circle is not confined to those unhappy regions which lie within 23 degrees of the pole, especially with regard to the solar light."

evidence:-

old map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd)
placename:- Swinside

source data:-

Map, hand coloured engraving, 3x2 sheets, The County of Cumberland, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, by Thomas Donald, engraved and published by Joseph Hodskinson, 29 Arundel Street, Strand, London, 1774.

D4NY33SW.jpg
"Swinside"
block or blocks, labelled in lowercase; a hamlet or just a house
item:- Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library

evidence:-

old map:- Ford 1839 map
placename:- Swinside

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:-

NY34253239 Swineside (Mungrisdale)

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