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Troutbeck Park, Lakes
Troutbeck Park
civil parish:-   Lakes (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   park
coordinates:-   NY42190685 (etc) 
1Km square:-   NY4206
10Km square:-   NY40


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BZS61.jpg (taken 4.12.2013)  
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BRK24.jpg  The valley from above; Hagg Gill, The Tongue, Trout Beck.
(taken 9.9.2009)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 26 4) 
placename:-  Troutbeck Park
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:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd) 
placename:-  Troutbeck Park
source data:-   Map, 4 sheets, The County of Westmoreland, scale 1 inch to 1 mile, surveyed 1768, and engraved and published by Thomas Jefferys, London, 1770.
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"TROUTBECK PARK"
outline with fence palings; park, with trees and undergrowth 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland

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.
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"Park"
A rectangular area, bounded by the Trout Beck and a paling fence. 
item:-  Armitt Library : A1221.1
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evidence:-   old map:- Cary 1789 (edn 1805) 
placename:-  Trogtbeck Park
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Westmoreland, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Cary, London, 1789; edition 1805.
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"Trogtbeck Park"
outline with fence palings; park 
item:-  JandMN : 129
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evidence:-   old map:- Cooke 1802
placename:-  Trogtbeck Park
source data:-   Map, Westmoreland ie Westmorland, scale about 12 miles to 1 inch, by George Cooke, 1802, published by Sherwood, Jones and Co, Paternoster Road, London, 1824.
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"Trogtbeck Park"
outline of fence palings; park 
item:-  Hampshire Museums : FA2000.62.4
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evidence:-   old map:- Wallis 1810 (Wmd) 
placename:-  Trogtbeck Park
source data:-   Road map, Westmoreland, scale about 19 miles to 1 inch, by James Wallis, 77 Berwick Street, Soho, 1810, published by W Lewis, Finch Lane, London, 1835?
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"Trogtbeck Pa."
outline with fence palings; park 
item:-  JandMN : 63
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evidence:-   old map:- Hall 1820 (Wmd) 
placename:-  Troutbeck Park
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmoreland ie Westmorland, scale about 14.5 miles to 1 inch, by Sidney Hall, London, 1820, published by Samuel Leigh, 18 Strand, London, 1820-31.
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"Troutbeck Pk."
outline of fence palings; park 
item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.14.58
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evidence:-   old map:- Ford 1839 map
placename:-  Troutbeck Park
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.
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"Troutbeck Park"
Park. 
item:-  JandMN : 100.1
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evidence:-   perhaps old drawing:- Aspland 1840s-60s
source data:-   Drawing, pencil, Troutbeck, Westmorland, by Theophilus Lindsey Aspland, 1847.
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"Troutbeck"
page number  "75"
item:-  Armitt Library : 1958.488.87
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evidence:-   old text:- Martineau 1855
source data:-   Guide book, A Complete Guide to the English Lakes, by Harriet Martineau, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, and by Whittaker and Co, London, 1855; published 1855-76.
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Page 34:-  "Troutbeck hills, ... After Romans and Saxons were gone, the valley was a great park, and the inhabitants were virtually serfs, in danger of the gallows, (which had a hill to itself, named after it to this day) at the will and pleasure of the one great man. In course of time,- that is, a good many centuries ago,- the valley was disparked, and divided among the inhabitants,- only one very large estate being left,- the new park, containing 2,000 acres. This was the estate given by Charles I, to Huddlestone Phillipson, for his services in the civil wars. ..."

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