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Borrowdale Head, Fawcett Forest
Borrowdale Head
locality:-   Borrowdale
civil parish:-   Fawcett Forest (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   NY54390414
1Km square:-   NY5404
10Km square:-   NY50

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 28 9) 
placename:-  Borrowdale Head
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:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Borrowdale Head Farm
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"BORROWDALE HEAD FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED BARN / / / FAWCETT FOREST / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 75631 / NY5438804116"

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"OUTBUILDING TO SOUTH- WEST OF BORROWDALE HEAD FARMHOUSE / / / FAWCETT FOREST / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 75632 / NY5440704120"

hearsay:-  
One of the buildings is a salving house. In autumn sheep were salved with a mixture of tar and butter against scab; 17 lbs of tar to 1 gallon of butter. The wool had to be pulled back and the salve aplied to the skin.

hearsay:-  
The farmhouse and bank barn date from the 17th century, with later additions.

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