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Low Nook, Ambleside
Low Nook
Street:-   Nook Lane
locality:-   Ambleside
civil parish:-   Lakes (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
locality type:-   locality
coordinates:-   NY37600475
1Km square:-   NY3704
10Km square:-   NY30

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CBT94.jpg (taken 24.9.2014)  
evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 26 6) 
placename:-  Low Nook
placename:-  Nook, Low
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 print:- Green 1822 (plate 5) 
placename:-  Cumpston Lodge
source data:-   Print, uncoloured etching, Cumpston Lodge, Ambleside, Westmorland, by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1822.
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Plate 5 in Forty Etchings from Nature. 
printed at bottom:-  "CUMPSTON LODGE. / Etched from Nature by William Green, &Published at Ambleside, Feby. 1, 1822."
item:-  Armitt Library : A6644.5
Image © see bottom of page
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.
image MNU1P055, button  goto source
Page 55:-  "... Approaching Ambleside [from Rydal], ... and the pretty cottage next reached on the same"
image MNU1P056, button  goto source
Page 56:-  "side [left] is that of James C. Wilson, Esq., called Low Nook. ..."
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