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Redbank Wood, Grasmere
Redbank Wood
locality:-   Red Bank
locality:-   Grasmere
civil parish:-   Lakes (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   wood
coordinates:-   NY33800590
1Km square:-   NY3305
10Km square:-   NY30

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 26 5) 
placename:-  Redbank Wood
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 drawing:- 
placename:-  Red Bank Wood
source data:-   Drawing, Ambleside from Red Bank Wood, Westmorland, by William Havell, 1800s-10s.
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View of Ambleside from Red Bank Wood. Trees in foreground, hills in background. One of a set of twenty views of the lake district executed by the artist on one sheet of paper. 
at bottom:-  "Ambleside from Red Bank Wood"
item:-  Tullie House Museum : 2009.89.36
Image © Tullie House Museum

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