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Calfclose Reeds, Borrowdale
Calfclose Reeds
site name:-   Calfclose Bay (?) 
civil parish:-   Borrowdale (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   locality
coordinates:-   NY269213 (?) 
1Km square:-   NY2621
10Km square:-   NY22
references:-   West 1778

evidence:-   descriptive text:- West 1778 (11th edn 1821) 
placename:-  Carf Close Reeds
source data:-   Guide book, A Guide to the Lakes, by Thomas West, published by William Pennington, Kendal, Cumbria once Westmorland, and in London, 1778 to 1821.
image WS21P203, button  goto source
Addendum; Mr Gray's Journal, 1769 
Page 203:-  "Oct. 3. [from Keswick] to Borrowdale; ... here the glass played its part divinely; the place is called Carf-close-reeds; and I choose to set down these barbarous names, that any body may enquire on the place, and easily find the particular station that I mean. ..."

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