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Mitchell Wyke, Windermere lake
Mitchell Wyke
Ferry Bay
locality:-   Windermere lake
civil parish:-   Windermere (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   bay
coordinates:-   SD38949565 (etc) 
1Km square:-   SD3895
10Km square:-   SD39
SummaryText:-   It is not clear whether Mitchell Wyke and Ferry Bay are or are not the same.

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 32 15) 
placename:-  Mitchell Wyke
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.
OS County Series (Lan 5 7) 

evidence:-   old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s
source data:-   Photograph, sepia, landing stage in Mitchell Wyke, Windermere lake, Claife, Lancashire, by Herbert Bell, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s?
image  click to enlarge
HB0275.jpg
item:-  Armitt Library : ALPS631
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photograph
BZH31.jpg  Trees.
(taken 20.9.2013)  

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