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Gillerthwaite, Loweswater
Gillerthwaite
locality:-   Loweswater
civil parish:-   Loweswater (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   NY14382103
1Km square:-   NY1421
10Km square:-   NY12

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BVF15.jpg (taken 17.8.2011)  
evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 63 9) 
placename:-  Gillerthwaite
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.
"Gillerthwaite / Post Office"
evidence:-   old map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd) 
placename:-  Gillerthwat
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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"Gillerthwat"
block or blocks, labelled in lowercase; a hamlet or just a house 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library
evidence:-   old map:- Crosthwaite 1783-94 (But/Cru/Low) 
placename:-  Gillerthwaite
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, An Accurate Map of Buttermere, Crummock and Loweswater Lakes, scale about 3 inches to 1 mile, by Peter Crosthwaite, Keswick, Cumberland, 1794, version published 1800.
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"Gillerthwaite"
item:-  Armitt Library : 1959.191.2
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evidence:-   old map:- Otley 1818
placename:-  Gillerthwaite
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, The District of the Lakes, Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Jonathan Otley, 1818, engraved by J and G Menzies, Edinburgh, Scotland, published by Jonathan Otley, Keswick, Cumberland, et al, 1833.
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item:-  JandMN : 48.1
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evidence:-   outline view:- Otley 1823 (8th edn 1849) 
placename:-  Gilterthwaite
source data:-   Engraving, outline view of mountains, Crummock and Buttermere from the Road near Loweswater Church, drawn by T Binns, engraved by O Jewitt, opposite p.18 of A Descriptive Guide of the English Lakes, by Jonathan Otley, 8th edition, 1849.
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item:-  Armitt Library : A1180.11
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evidence:-   old drawing:- Aspland 1840s-60s
placename:-  Gillerthwaite
source data:-   Drawing, pencil, Gillerthwaite, Loweswater, Cumberland, by Theophilus Lindsey Aspland, 17 July 1846.
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"Friday July 17. 1846. Gillerthwaite near Crummock Water."
page number  "42"
item:-  Armitt Library : 1958.488.47
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evidence:-   old print:- Heaton Cooper 1905 (edn 1908) 
placename:-  Old Post Office, The
source data:-   Print, colour halftone, The Old Post Office, Loweswater, Cumberland, from a watercolour painting by Alfred Heaton Cooper, published by Adam and Charles Black, London, 2nd edn 1908.
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Now Gillerthwaite, Loweswater. 
Opposite p.108 of The English Lakes, painted by Alfred Heaton Cooper, described by William T Palmer. 
printed at tissue opposite the print:-  "THE OLD POST OFFICE, LOWESWATER"
printed at signed lower right:-  "A HEATON COOPER"
item:-  JandMN : 468.40
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evidence:-   old print:- Bogg 1898
item:-  wheelbarrow; communication
source data:-   Print, engraving, Post Office, Gillerthwaite, Loweswater, Cumberland, by A Haselgrave, 1897, published by Edmund Bogg, 3 Woodhouse Lane, and James Miles, Guildford Street, Leeds, Yorkshire, 1898.
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Included on p.192 of Lakeland and Ribblesdale, by Edmund Bogg. 
item:-  JandMN : 231.75
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