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Cummersdale
civil parish:-   Cummersdale (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   locality
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   NY39275302 (etc) 
1Km square:-   NY3953
10Km square:-   NY35

evidence:-   road book:- Cary 1798 (2nd edn 1802) 
placename:-  Cummersdale
source data:-   Road book, itineraries, Cary's New Itinerary, by John Cary, 181 Strand, London, 2nd edn 1802.
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page 321-322  "A mile beyond [Rose Castle] ... and between 2 and 3 Miles further are Dalston Hall and Cummersdale, Seats of J. Sowerby, Esq."
item:-  JandMN : 228.1
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evidence:-   road book:- Cary 1798 (2nd edn 1802) 
placename:-  Cummersdale
source data:-   Road book, itineraries, Cary's New Itinerary, by John Cary, 181 Strand, London, 2nd edn 1802.
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page 557-558  "Near Dalston, on l. are Cummersdale, and Dalston Hall, Seats of J. Sowerby, Esq."
item:-  JandMN : 228.2
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evidence:-   old map:- Ford 1839 map
placename:-  Cummerdale
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Map of the Lake District of Cumberland, Westmoreland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by Charles Thurnam, Carlisle, and by R Groombridge, 5 Paternoster Row, London, 3rd edn 1843.
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"Cummerdale"
item:-  JandMN : 100.1
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evidence:-   old map:- Garnett 1850s-60s H
placename:-  Cummersdale
source data:-   Map of the English Lakes, in Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, 1850s-60s.
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"Cummersdale"
blocks, settlement 
item:-  JandMN : 82.1
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evidence:-   old painting:- 
placename:-  Cummersdale
item:-  blackberrycostume
source data:-   Painting, watercolour, Blackberry Gatherers near Cummersdale, Cumberland, by Thomas Bushby, 1913.
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A boy and two girls wearing pinafores gather blackberries from the hedge of a wheat field to right of composition beyond which stretches an undulating landscape of woods and fields. Distant hills lie to far left. 
signed &dated at bottom left:-  "Thos; Bushby. 1913"
dated at bottom left:-  "1914"
inscribed at reverse:-  "'Blackberry Gatherers' Near Cummersdale, Carlisle Thos. Bushby, Victoria Lodge, Currock, Carlisle 1913"
item:-  Tullie House Museum : 1996.252.44
Image © Tullie House Museum

places:-  
NY39235316 Caldew Bank (Cummersdale) L
NY395536 Caldew railway bridge, Cummersdale (Cummersdale / St Cuthbert Without)
NY39415267 Cummersdale Dye Works (Cummersdale)
NY39415312 Cummersdale Print Works (Cummersdale)
NY39445354 Cummersdale Station (Cummersdale)
NY38985325 High Cummersdale (Cummersdale)
NY39345289 Hill House (Cummersdale)
NY38815381 Low Cummersdale (Carlisle)
NY39435284 mill, Cummersdale (Cummersdale) gone
NY39455315 school, Cummersdale (Cummersdale)
NY39475284 Cummersdale Mill (Cummersdale)
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