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Maiden Holme, Windermere lake
Maiden Holme
site name:-   Windermere lake
civil parish:-   Windermere (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   island
coordinates:-   SD39099598
1Km square:-   SD3995
10Km square:-   SD39


photograph
BPE48.jpg (taken 12.5.2008)  
Said to be the smallest island on the lake.

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 32 15) 
placename:-  Maiden Holme
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.
OS County Series (Lan 5 7) 

evidence:-   old map:- Clarke 1787 map (Windermere N) 
source data:-   Map, A Map of the Northern Part of the Lake Winandermere and its Environs, scale about 6.5 ins to 1 mile, by James Clarke, engraved by Samuel John Neele, 352 Strand, published by James Clarke, Penrith, Cumberland and in London etc, 1787.
image
CLASD39X.jpg
item:-  private collection : 10.10
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evidence:-   old map:- Prior 1874 map 1
placename:-  Maiden Holme
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving or lithograph? Winander Mere, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, 1874.
image  click to enlarge
PI03M1.jpg
"Maiden Holme"
island 
item:-  private collection : 133.1
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