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Chapel Hill, Workington
Chapel Hill
civil parish:-   Workington (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   hill
coordinates:-   NX98522848 (about) 
1Km square:-   NX9828
10Km square:-   NX92

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 53 10) 
placename:-  Chapel Hill
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.
"Chapel Hill / St Michaels Mount"

evidence:-   probably old text:- Mackenzie 1776
placename:-  How Michael
source data:-   Charts, and sailing directions, Nautical Descriptions of the West Coast of Great Britain, Bristol Channel to Cape Wrath, by Murdoch Mackenzie, published London, 1776.
image MK10P23, button  goto source
Pages 23-24:-  "... ..."
"Dubmill-swap is a broad sand between Allonby and Beckfoot, ... To avoid the extremity of this sand; keep St. Bee's Head a ship's-length without How-michael; or ..."
"..."
"Workington distinguished at Sea. / Workington may be distinguished at sea by How-michael Hill, which has a small tower on the top of it, and stands about half a mile south-westward of the Harbour's-mouth."

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