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Butter Burn
runs into:-    Irthing, River

civil parish:-   Kingwater (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   river
1Km square:-   NY6674
10Km square:-   NY67


photograph
BOV98.jpg (taken 21.3.2008)  
photograph
BOV94.jpg  Down from Butterburn Bridge.
(taken 21.3.2008)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 9 5) 
placename:-  Butter Burn
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 (Cmd 9 6) 

evidence:-   old map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd) 
placename:-  Butterburn
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, 3x2 sheets, The County of Cumberland, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, by Thomas Donald, engraved and published by Joseph Hodskinson, 29 Arundel Street, Strand, London, 1774.
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D4NY67SW.jpg
"Butterburn"
single or double wiggly line; a river 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library

places:-  
NY67797424 Butterburn Bridge (Kingwater)
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