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Birthwaite, Windermere
Birthwaite
locality:-   Windermere
civil parish:-   Windermere (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   SD40899858
1Km square:-   SD4098
10Km square:-   SD49

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 32 8) 
placename:-  Low Birthwaite
placename:-  Birthwaite, 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:- Crosthwaite 1783-94 (Win/Ble) 
placename:-  Birthwaite
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, An Accurate Map of the Grand Lake of Windermere, scale about 2 inches to 1 mile, by Peter Crosthwaite, Keswick, Cumberland, 1783, version published 1819.
image
CT9SD49E.jpg
"Birthwaite"
block, building/s 
item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.14.102
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