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Allerdale below Derwent Ward, Cumberland
Allerdale below Derwent Ward
county:-   Cumbria (Cumberland) 
locality type:-   ward
references:-   Dawson 1830s

evidence:-   old map:- Morden 1695 (Cmd) 
placename:-  North Allerdale Ward
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Cumberland, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Robert Morden, 1695, published by Abel Swale, the Unicorn, St Paul's Churchyard, Awnsham, and John Churchill, the Black Swan, Paternoster Row, London, 1695-1715.
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"NORTH ALLERDALE WARD"
Labelling the ward area. 
item:-  JandMN : 90
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evidence:-   old map:- Moll 1724
placename:-  North Allerdale Ward
source data:-   Maps, Westmorland, scale about 5.5 miles to 1 inch, and Cumberland, scale about 7 miles to 1 inch, by Herman Moll, London, 1724; published 1724-53.

evidence:-   descriptive text:- Simpson 1746
placename:-  West Ward
source data:-   Atlas, three volumes of maps and descriptive text published as 'The Agreeable Historian, or the Compleat English Traveller ...', by Samuel Simpson, 1746.
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"... It [Cumberland] is not divided into Hundreds, as most other Counties are, but Wards, of which there are five, viz. South-Ward, North-Ward, West-Ward, Leath-Ward, and Eskdale-Ward,"

evidence:-   old map:- Bowen 1763
placename:-  North Allerdale Ward
source data:-   Map, Improved Map of the Counties of Cumberland and Westmoreland, scale about 5.5 miles to 1 inch, derived from a larger map by Bowen or Kitchin, by Emanuel Bowen, London, about 1763; published 1763-1828.

evidence:-   old map:- Cooke 1802
placename:-  Allerdale below Derwent Ward
source data:-   Map, Cumberland, scale about 15.5 miles to 1 inch, by George Cooke, 1802, bound in Gray's New Book of Roads, 1824, published by Sherwood, Jones and Co, Paternoster Road, London, 1824.
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"Allerdale below Derwent [Ward]"
area 4 
item:-  Hampshire Museums : FA2000.62.2
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evidence:-   old map:- Cooper 1808
placename:-  Allerdale below Derwent Ward
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Cumberland, scale about 10.5 miles to 1 inch, drawn and engraved by Cooper, published by R Phillips, Bridge Street, Blackfriars, London, 1808.
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"Wards. / ... / 2 Allerdale (below Derwent.)"
number on map, table on right 
item:-  JandMN : 86
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evidence:-   old text:- Gents Mag
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 1819 part 1 p.405 
From the Compendium of County History:-  "1297. Allerdale, as far as Cockermouth, laid waste, and Carlisle unsuccessfully besieged by the Scots under Wallace, in October."

evidence:-   old map:- Dawson 1830s
placename:-  Allerdale below Derwent Ward
source data:-   Political maps, Westmoreland, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, and Cumberland, scale about 7.5 miles to 1 inch, showing the proposed parliamentary divisions, and town maps Carlisle, Kendal, Cockermouth, Whitehaven, Workington, at larger scales, made for the Reform Bill 1832, by Lieut Robert K Dawson RE, 1831.

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