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Wanthwaite, St John's Castlerigg etc
Wanthwaite
locality:-   St John's in the Vale
civil parish:-   St John's Castlerigg and Wythburn (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
locality type:-   locality
coordinates:-   NY31832297
1Km square:-   NY3122
10Km square:-   NY32
evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 64 8) 
placename:-  Wanthwaite
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 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.
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Page 61:-  "... [at] Riddings, from a small declivity in the road, stop and take a view of the beautiful vale of Wanthwaite, erroneously called by all authors St John's Vale: this error hath I suppose arisen from its being within the chapelry of St John's; whereas these two vales are distinct, and are separated by the mountain called Naddle-Fell. ..."
evidence:-   old map:- Otley 1818
placename:-  Wanthwaite
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, The District of the Lakes, Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Jonathan Otley, 1818, engraved by J and G Menzies, Edinburgh, Scotland, published by Jonathan Otley, Keswick, Cumberland, et al, 1833.
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item:-  JandMN : 48.1
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evidence:-   old map:- Garnett 1850s-60s H
placename:-  Wanthwaite
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.
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"Wanthwaite"
blocks, settlement 
item:-  JandMN : 82.1
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