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Thorney How, Grasmere
Thorney How
Thorny How
Grasmere Youth Hostel
locality:-   Grasmere
civil parish:-   Lakes (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
locality type:-   youth hostel
coordinates:-   NY33190843
1Km square:-   NY3308
10Km square:-   NY30
references:-   Listed Buildings 2010


photograph
BVK56.jpg (taken 29.9.2011)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 18 16) 
placename:-  Thorny Howe
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:-  Thorn How
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.
image
J5NY30NW.jpg
"Thorn How"
circle, labelled in italic lowercase text; settlement, farm, house, or hamlet? 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland

evidence:-   old map:- Cary 1789 (edn 1805) 
placename:-  Thorn How
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Westmoreland, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Cary, London, 1789; edition 1805.
image
CY24NY30.jpg
"Thorn How"
block/s, labelled in italic lowercase; house, or hamlet 
item:-  JandMN : 129
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Thorney Howe Youth Hostel
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"THORNEY HOWE YOUTH HOSTEL / / / LAKES / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 452087 / NY3319508428"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Now Youth Hostel. L-plan. C18 wing to east of stone rubble with crude slate quoins, slate roof, end chimneys, 2 storeys, round-arched doorway, 2 sashes on ground floor and 3 above. Lower and older part facing south is cement- rendered and has 3 oval chimneys, 2 low storeys, and smaller windows."

person:-   society
 : Youth Hostels Association
date:-   1978

: 1978 (8th edn): Youth Hostels in Lakeland: Youth Hostels Association|

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