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St Oswald's, Grasmere
St Oswald's
locality:-   Grasmere
civil parish:-   Lakes (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
locality type:-   locality
coordinates:-   NY33190727
1Km square:-   NY3307
10Km square:-   NY30


photograph
CBW28.jpg  and The Wray on the left.
(taken 17.10.2014)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 25 4) 
placename:-  St Oswald's
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 text:- Martineau 1855
source data:-   Guide book, A Complete Guide to the English Lakes, by Harriet Martineau, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, and by Whittaker and Co, London, 1855; published 1855-76.
image MNU1P050, button  goto source
Page 50:-  "... and plunge down Red Bank, ... at the corner, where the road turns to the village, the cluster of lodging-houses, called St. Oswald's, where the Hydropathic Establishment struggled on for a time, but found the Westmorland winters too long for invalids."

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  St Oswalds
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"ST OSWALDS / / / LAKES / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 451925 / NY3319207270"

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