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Keen Ground, Hawkshead
Keen Ground
civil parish:-   Hawkshead (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   SD34779829
1Km square:-   SD3498
10Km square:-   SD39


photograph
CGP38.jpg (taken 22.9.2017)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Lan 5 2) 
placename:-  Keen Ground
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.

notes:-  
Garden design by Thomas H Mawson and Lakeland Nurseries 1915, for Colonel Cowper Essex. The house architect was James Jennings.

Waymark, Janet: 2009: Thomas Mawson, Life, Gardens and Landscapes: Lincoln, Francis (London)

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