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Raw Head, Great Langdale
Raw Head
locality:-   Great Langdale
civil parish:-   Lakes (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   NY30410672
1Km square:-   NY3006
10Km square:-   NY30


photograph
BLV36.jpg (taken 13.4.2006)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 25 3) 
placename:-  Raw Head
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:-   probably old map:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd) 
placename:-  Row
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.
image
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"Row"
circle, labelled in italic lowercase text; settlement, farm, house, or hamlet? 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland

evidence:-   old map:- Cary 1789 (edn 1805) 
placename:-  Row
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Westmoreland, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Cary, London, 1789; edition 1805.
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"Row"
block/s, labelled in italic lowercase; house, or hamlet 
item:-  JandMN : 129
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   old print:- Green 1810 (plate 52) 
placename:-  Row Head
source data:-   Print, soft ground etching, Row Head in Langdale, Raw Head, Great Langdale, Westmorland, by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1809.
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Plate 52 in Sixty Studies from Nature, 1810. 
printed at top right:-  "52"
printed at bottom:-  "ROW HEAD IN LANGDALE. / Drawn &Engraved by William Green, and Published at Ambleside, Augst. 1st. 1809."
watermark:-  "J WHATMAN / 1813"
item:-  Armitt Library : A6641.52
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evidence:-   old print:- Green 1814 (plate 15) 
placename:-  Row Head
source data:-   Print, tinted soft ground etching, Row Head, Great Langdale, Westmorland, by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1814.
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Plate 15 in Sixty Small Prints. 
printed at top right:-  "15"
printed at bottom:-  "ROW HEAD. / Published at Ambleside Augst. 1, 1814, by Wm. Green."
item:-  Armitt Library : A6653.15
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evidence:-   old print:- Green 1814 (plate 15) 
placename:-  Row Head
source data:-   Print, uncoloured soft ground etching, Row Head, Great Langdale, Westmorland, by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1814.
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Plate 15 in Sixty Small Prints. 
printed at top right:-  "15"
printed at bottom:-  "ROW HEAD. / Published at Ambleside Augst. 1, 1814, by Wm. Green."
item:-  Armitt Library : A6656.15
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   old text:- Green 1814
placename:-  Row Head
source data:-   Set of prints, soft ground etchings, Sixty Small Prints, with text, A Description of a Series of Sixty Small Prints, by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1814.
image GN09p10, button  goto source
page 10:-  "..."
"Row Head is upon the opposite side of the Langdale valley to Oak How; ..."

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Raw Head Farm
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"RAW HEAD FARMHOUSE / / / LAKES / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 452286 / NY3040806724"

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