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Silloth
civil parish:-   Silloth-on-Solway (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   locality
locality type:-   buildings
locality type:-   selected place
coordinates:-   NY11055369 (etc) 
1Km square:-   NY1053
10Km square:-   NY15
latitude; longitude:-   3d 23.3m W; 54d 52.1m N


photograph
CFX07.jpg (taken 7.3.2017)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 20 11) 
placename:-  Silloth
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:- Saxton 1579
placename:-  Silluthe
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmorlandiae et Cumberlandiae Comitatus ie Westmorland and Cumberland, scale about 5 miles to 1 inch, by Christopher Saxton, London, engraved by Augustinus Ryther, 1576, published 1579-1645.
image
Sax9NY15.jpg
Building, symbol for a hamlet, which may or may not have a nucleus.  "Silluthe"
item:-  private collection : 2
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   old map:- Mercator 1595 (edn?) 
placename:-  Silluthe
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Northumbria, Cumberlandia, et Dunelmensis Episcopatus, ie Northumberland, Cumberland and Durham etc, scale about 6.5 miles to 1 inch, by Gerard Mercator, Duisberg, Germany, about 1595.
image
MER8CumB.jpg
"Silluthe"
circle; plotted by Moricambe Bay 
item:-  JandMN : 169
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evidence:-   old map:- Speed 1611 (Cmd) 
placename:-  Silluth
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Cumberland and the Ancient Citie Carlile Described, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by John Speed, 1610, published by J Sudbury and George Humble, Popes Head Alley, London, 1611-12.
image
SP11NY15.jpg
"Silluth"
circle, tower; plotted too far inland 
item:-  private collection : 16
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evidence:-   old map:- Jansson 1646
placename:-  Silluth
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Cumbria and Westmoria, ie Cumberland and Westmorland, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Jansson, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1646.
image
JAN3NY15.jpg
"Silluth"
Buildings and tower. 
item:-  JandMN : 88
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evidence:-   old map:- Morden 1695 (Cmd) 
placename:-  Silleth
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Cumberland, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Robert Morden, 1695, published by Abel Swale, the Unicorn, St Paul's Churchyard, Awnsham, and John Churchill, the Black Swan, Paternoster Row, London, 1695-1715.
image
MD12NY15.jpg
"Silleth"
Circle. 
item:-  JandMN : 90
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evidence:-   old map:- Bowen and Kitchin 1760
placename:-  Silleth
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, A New Map of the Counties of Cumberland and Westmoreland Divided into their Respective Wards, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Emanuel Bowen and Thomas Kitchin et al, published by T Bowles, Robert Sayer, and John Bowles, London, 1760.
image
BO18NY14.jpg
"Silleth"
circle, tower, drawn on the wrong coast 
item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.14.10
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   old map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd) 
placename:-  Silloth
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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"Silloth"
block or blocks, labelled in lowercase; a hamlet or just a house 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library

evidence:-   old map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd) 
placename:-  Silloth
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.
image
DN04Sllt.jpg
"Silloth"
block or blocks, labelled in lowercase; a hamlet or just a house 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library

evidence:-   old map:- Greenwood 1824
placename:-  Silloth
source data:-   Map, engraving, Map of the County of Cumberland, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, etc, by Christopher and John Greenwood, published by George Pringle jnr, 70 Queen Street, Cheapside, London, 1823.
image
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"Silloth"
buildings on streets; labelled in lowercase for a parish or township. 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.b.3.11
Image © National Library of Scotland

evidence:-   old map:- Garnett 1850s-60s H
placename:-  Silloth
source data:-   Map of the English Lakes, in Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, 1850s-60s.
image
GAR2NY15.jpg
"Silloth"
blocks, settlement 
item:-  JandMN : 82.1
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evidence:-   old text:- Wood 1880s
source data:-   Album, Souvenir Album of Silloth, views in Silloth and Skinburness, published by J Wood and Co, Silloth, Cumberland, 1880s?
"This fashionable favourite watering place is situated on the Solway Firth, 22½Miles from Carlisle."
"..."
"Silloth Pier - 1000 ft. long, 25 ft. broad, free to visitors fishing or boating -. Steam boats daily to Liverpool, twice a week to Dublin, Isle-of-Man and Whitehaven."
"Climate mild, prevailing winds south west, Ozone more than any place in England."
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WD01C.jpg
"Souvenir Album of Silloth"
"28 views"
"J Wood and Co, Silloth."
item:-  JandMN : 454
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evidence:-   old map:- Postlethwaite 1877 (3rd edn 1913) 
placename:-  Silloth
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Map of the Lake District Mining Field, Westmorland, Cumberland, Lancashire, scale about 5 miles to 1 inch, by John Postlethwaite, published by W H Moss and Sons, 13 Lowther Street, Whitehaven, Cumberland, 1877 edn 1913.
image
PST2NY15.jpg
"Silloth"
dots, railway and station 
item:-  JandMN : 162.2
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evidence:-   old map:- Post Office 1850s-1900s
placename:-  Silloth
source data:-   Post road maps, General Post Office Circulation Map for England and Wales, for the General Post Office, London, 1850s-1900s.
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"Silloth"
map date 1909 

evidence:-   old map:- Post Office 1850s-1900s
placename:-  Silloth
source data:-   Post road maps, General Post Office Circulation Map for England and Wales, for the General Post Office, London, 1850s-1900s.
image  click to enlarge
PF10Cm.jpg
"Silloth"
map date 1892 

evidence:-   old map:- Post Office 1850s-1900s
placename:-  Silloth
source data:-   Post road maps, General Post Office Circulation Map for England and Wales, for the General Post Office, London, 1850s-1900s.
image  click to enlarge
POF2Cm.jpg
"Silloth"
map date 1890 

evidence:-   old map:- Post Office 1850s-1900s
placename:-  Silloth
source data:-   Post road maps, General Post Office Circulation Map for England and Wales, for the General Post Office, London, 1850s-1900s.
image  click to enlarge
POF8Cm.jpg
"Silloth / Stn."
map date 1873 

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images courtesy of the British Postal Museum and Hampshire CC Museums


photograph
BZU58.jpg  lemonade bottle & codds bottle & Silloth Mineral Water Co & boat &fishing boat
(taken 7.2.2014)  

hearsay:-  
The Carlisle and Silloth Bay Railway was allowed to purchase 15 acres of land for extraordinary purposes, which did not include property development. In the 1850s-60s it bought 210 acres, and developed a resort; streets, gardens, hotel, gas works, sewage system, baths, bathing machines, and the company even provided a policemen. Plots were leased for building, and the company built some houses itself.
The Bishop of Carlisle called it the Torquay of the North.

placename:-  
Cistercian monks from Abbey Town stored grain here in barns called laithes, by the sea, thus sea laith, Silloth.

reference:-  
Silloth

Adams, Douglas & Lloyd, John: 1990: Deeper Meaning of Life, The: Pan Books &Faber and Faber

places:-  
NY11185342 Albion, The (Silloth-on-Solway)
NY11135401 Alma Terrace (Silloth-on-Solway)
NY10855384 Arcade (Silloth-on-Solway)
NY10975360 Balmoral Hotel (Silloth-on-Solway)
NY10405251 Blitterlees Bank (Silloth-on-Solway)
NY10925211 Blitterlees (Silloth-on-Solway)
NY11175342 Evangelical Free Church (Silloth-on-Solway)
NY11115353 chapel, Silloth (2) (Silloth-on-Solway)
NY11175368 Christ Church Mission Hall (Silloth-on-Solway)
NY11015370 Christ Church (Silloth-on-Solway) L
NY11075368 Church Terrace (Silloth-on-Solway)
NY11025375 Criffel Hotel (Silloth-on-Solway)
NY10455343 Custom House (Silloth-on-Solway)
NY10945338 Derwent Brewery (Silloth-on-Solway)
NY10985372 drinking fountain, Silloth (Silloth-on-Solway)
NY11085339 Eden Street Football Ground (Silltoh-on-Solway)
NY10965328 Silloth Engine Shed (Silloth-on-Solway) gone
NY11065389 fingerpost, Silloth (Silloth-on-Solway)
NY11275341 gas works, Silloth (Silloth-on-Solway) gone
NY10945353 Golf Hotel, The (Silloth-on-Solway) L
NY10935378 Green, The (Silloth-on-Solway)
NY11105272 Greenrow (Silloth-on-Solway)
NY10985334 Jim W Brough Rugby Park (Silloth-on-Solway)
NY10395301 Leesbank Salt Works (Silloth-on-Solway)
NY10355358 lighthouse, Port of Silloth (Silloth-on-Solway) gone
NY11045378 Marine Terrace (Silloth-on-Solway) L
NY10515353 Marshall Dock (Silloth-on-Solway)
NY11035383 millennium memorial, Silloth (Silloth-on-Solway)
NY10725344 New Dock (Silloth-on-Solway)
NY11085409 North House (Silloth-on-Solway)
NY11505392 Old Silloth (Silloth-on-Solway)
NY11075384 Park Terrace (Silloth-on-Solway)
NY10795379 Pavillion, The (Silloth-on-Solway)
NY10795371 pine trees, Silloth (Silloth-on-Solway)
NY11155342 Silloth Police Station (Silloth-on-Solway)
NY10815338 Port of Silloth (Silloth-on-Solway)
NY11145363 post box, Silloth (Silloth-on-Solway)
NY111536 Presbyterian Church (Silloth-on-Solway)
NY10855301 Prospect Terrace (Silloth-on-Solway)
NY11075382 Queens Hotel (Silloth-on-Solway) L
NY11165355 Raglan's Court (Silloth-on-Solway)
NY11145326 railway bridge, Silloth (Silloth-on-Solway)
NY10425305 railway sidings, Leesbank Salt Works (Silloth-on-Solway) gone
NY10675345 railway sidings, Port of Silloth (Silloth-on-Solway) gone
NY11145366 Royal Hotel (Silloth-on-Solway)
NY10375304 Saltworks Cottages (Silloth-on-Solway)
NY11445462 Silloth Bank (Silloth-on-Solway)
NY10705540 Silloth Bank (Silloth-on-Solway)
NY10535440 Silloth Bay (Silloth-on-Solway)
NY10935352 Silloth Cafe (Silloth-on-Solway)
NY10415315 Silloth Convalescent Home (Silloth-on-Solway) L
NY11185382 Silloth Fire Station (Silloth-on-Solway)
NY10675370 Silloth Lifeboat Station (Silloth-on-Solway)
NY10355358 Silloth Pier (Silloth-on-Solway)
NY11165394 Silloth Primary School (Silloth-on-Solway)
NY10935341 Silloth Station (Silloth-on-Solway)
NY10995362 Silloth Stores (Silloth-on-Solway)
NY11155369 Caldew Street (Silloth-on-Solway)
NY11045380 Criffel Street (Silloth-on-Solway)
NY11075346 Eden Street (Silloth-on-Solway)
NY11135363 Esk Street (Silloth-on-Solway)
NY10845357 Lawn Terrace (Silloth-on-Solway)
NY11175390 Liddel Street (Silloth-on-Solway)
NY10985352 National Westminster Bank (Silloth-on-Solway) L
NY11145386 Petterill Street (Silloth-on-Solway)
NY10965353 Roya's Pizza (Silloth-on-Solway) L
NY11235348 Skiddaw Street (Silloth-on-Solway)
NY10895338 Solway Fish (Silloth-on-Solway)
NY11145366 Solway Street (Silloth-on-Solway)
NY11105356 Wampool Street (Silloth-on-Solway)
NY11185376 Waver Street (Silloth-on-Solway)
NY11165377 Waver Street (Silloth-on-Solway)
NY10975261 Solway Holiday Village (Silloth-on-Solway)
NY10795348 Solway Mills (Silloth-on-Solway)
NY11175372 St Andrew's Hall (Silloth-on-Solway)
NY11195373 St Andrew's United Reformed Church (Silloth-on-Solway)
NY11225386 St Paul's School (Silloth-on-Solway)
NY10865375 topograph, Silloth (Silloth-on-Solway)
NY10545368 topograph, Silloth (2) (Silloth-on-Solway)
NY11095358 Trinity Methodist Church (Silloth-on-Solway)
NY11025372 war memorial, Silloth (Silloth-on-Solway)
NY10455340 Watchouse (Silloth-on-Solway)
NY125540 Silloth Airfield (Holme Low)
NY10975261 miniature railway, Silloth (Silloth-on-Solway)
NY09375292 Lees Scar Lighthouse (Silloth-on-Solway)
NY11505475 East Cote Lighthouse (Silloth-on-Solway)
NY1153 Silloth Hydro (Silloth-on-Solway)
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