Old Cumbria Gazetteer

Hincaster

civil parish:-

Hincaster (formerly Westmorland)

county:-

Cumbria

locality type:-

locality

locality type:-

buildings

coordinates:-

SD50918470 (etc)

1Km square:-

SD5084

10Km square:-

SD58

evidence:-

old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 42 12)
placename:- Hincaster

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.

evidence:-

old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 42 12)
placename:- Hincaster Green

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.

evidence:-

old map:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd)
placename:- Hincaster Green

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.

J5SD58SW.jpg
"Hincaster Green"
blocks, labelled in italic lowercase text; settlement, village?
item:- National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland

evidence:-

old map:- Cary 1789 (edn 1805)
placename:- Hincasler Green

source data:-

Map, uncoloured engraving, Westmoreland, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Cary, London, 1789; edition 1805.

CY24SD58.jpg
"Hincasler Green"
block/s, labelled in italic lowercase; house, or hamlet
item:- JandMN : 129
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-

old map:- Cooper 1808
placename:- Hincaster

source data:-

Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmoreland ie Westmorland, scale about 9 miles to 1 inch, by H Cooper, 1808, published by R Phillips, Bridge Street, Blackfriars, London, 1808.

click to enlarge
COP4.jpg
"Hincaster"
circle; village or hamlet
item:- Dove Cottage : 2007.38.53
Image © see bottom of page

hearsay:-

The boulder displayed on the village green is not local limestone, it's a glacial erratic of Shap Granite.

Mr Swinglehurst, of the gunpowder works, living at Hincaster House, built a mission room onto a cottage on the green, which served as a Sunday school till the 1940s.

places:-

SD51008469 Green End (Hincaster)

SD50918469 Hawthorn Cottage (Hincaster)

SD50638484 Hincaster Hall (Hincaster) L

SD50988469 Hincaster House (Hincaster)

SD513845 Hincaster Junction (Hincaster)

SD51248474 railway bridge, Hincaster (3) (Hincaster)

SD51288476 Railway Cottages (Hincaster)

SD50848455 tithe barn, Hincaster (Hincaster) gone?

SD50848511 war memorial, Hincaster (Hincaster)

SD50898500 Worlds End (Hincaster)

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