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Scarness Bay, Bassenthwaite Lake
Scarness Bay
site name:-   Bassenthwaite Lake
locality:-   Scarness
civil parish:-   Bassenthwaite (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   bay
coordinates:-   NY21703027 (etc) 
1Km square:-   NY2130
10Km square:-   NY23


photograph
BPW07.jpg  From about Ullock Pike.
(taken 17.12.2008)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 55 4) 
placename:-  Scarness Bay
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 (Bas) 
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, An Accurate Map of Broadwater or Bassenthwaite Lake, scale about 3 inches to 1 mile, by Peter Crosthwaite, Keswick, Cumberland, 1783, version published 1800.
image
CT6NY23A.jpg
item:-  Armitt Library : 1959.191.4
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   old map:- Clarke 1787 map (Bassenthwaite Lake) 
source data:-   Map, A Map of Broadwater and its Environs, ie Bassenthwaite Lake, scale about 6.5 ins to 1 mile, by James Clarke, engraved by Neele, 352 Strand, published by James Clarke, Penrith, Cumberland and in London etc, 1787.
image
CL8NY22J.jpg
item:-  private collection : 10.8
Image © see bottom of page

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