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Low Snab, Above Derwent
Low Snab
locality:-   Derwent Fells
civil parish:-   Above Derwent (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   NY22921865
1Km square:-   NY2218
10Km square:-   NY21


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CBJ18.jpg (taken 4.8.2014)  
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CBJ19.jpg  Porch.
(taken 4.8.2014)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 70 1) 
placename:-  Low Snab
placename:-  Snab, Low
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:- Donald 1774 (Cmd) 
placename:-  Low Snab
placename:-  Snab, Low
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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D4NY21NW.jpg
"Low Snab"
block or blocks, labelled in lowercase; a hamlet or just a house 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library

evidence:-   old print:- Green 1810 (plate 38) 
placename:-  Low Snab
source data:-   Print, soft ground etching, Low Snab in Newlands, Above Derwent, Cumberland, by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1809.
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GN1238.jpg
Plate 38 in Sixty Studies from Nature, 1810. 
printed at top right:-  "38"
printed at bottom:-  "LOW SNAB IN NEWLANDS. / Drawn &Engraved by William Green, and Published at Ambleside, Augst. 1st. 1809."
watermark:-  "J WHATMAN / 1813"
item:-  Armitt Library : A6641.38
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Low Snab
item:-  spice cupboard
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"LOW SNAB AND ADJOINING BARN / / / ABOVE DERWENT / ALLERDALE / CUMBRIA / II / 72085 / NY2292218682"


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CBJ20.jpg  Barn end with pigeon holes.
(taken 4.8.2014)  
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CBJ22.jpg  Perhaps a hoghouse?
(taken 4.8.2014)  
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BOK69.jpg (taken 19.1.2008)  
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BZG84.jpg (taken 6.9.2013)  

hearsay:-  
There is a pigeon loft over the 16th century byre door at Low Snab Farm.

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