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  Longsleddale Woods, Longsleddale
Bowers Wood, Longsleddale
Bowers Wood
locality:-   Longsleddale
civil parish:-   Longsleddale (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   wood
locality type:-   SSSI
coordinates:-   NY50720235 (etc) 
1Km square:-   NY5002
10Km square:-   NY50
evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 27 16) 
placename:-  Bowers Wood
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.
Parcels 319 13.859 acres, 318 3.402 acres? 
evidence:-   old map:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd) 
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.
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trees; woodland 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland
evidence:-   old map:- OS 1881-82 New Series (outline edition) 
placename:-  Bowers Wood
source data:-   Map, engraving, area north of Kendal, Westmorland, New Series one inch map, outline edition, sheet 39, scale 1 inch to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, 1881-82.
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"Bowers Wood"
item:-  JandMN : 61
Image © see bottom of page
evidence:-   textbook:- EPNS Westmorland 1967
placename:-  Bowerwood
source data:-   Book, The Place Names of Westmorland, two volumes, by A H Smith, published for the English Place Name Society by Cambridge University Press, Cambridgeshire, 1967
evidence:-   map:- OS Six Inch (1956) 
placename:-  Bowers Wood
source data:-   Map series, various editions with the national grid, scale about 6 inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, scale 1 to 10560 from 1950s to 1960s, then 1 to 10000 from 1960s to 2000s, superseded by print on demand from digital data.
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"Bowers Wood"
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