Old Cumbria Gazetteer |
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| Killands, Bampton | ||
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| Killands | ||
| locality:- | Hawes Water | |
| civil parish:- | Bampton (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | locality | |
| locality type:- | headland | |
| coordinates:- | NY48811521 (etc) | |
| 1Km square:- | NY4815 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY41 | |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 13 15) placename:- Killands |
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| 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. |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Green 1814 |
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| source data:- | Set of prints, soft ground etchings, Sixty Small Prints, with
text, A Description of a Series of Sixty Small Prints, by
William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1814. goto sourcepage 33:- "..." "Haws Water is three miles long, and generally about half a mile across; a richly wooded promontory, which from the lower grounds appears to cut the lake in two, shoots boldly towards the opposite shores, and here it is scarcely more" goto sourcepage 34:- "than two or three hundred yards in breadth. Mesand with its school stands near this promontory; on the side of which rushes, in wild impetuosity, Fordingdale Beck, a stream abounding in picturesque waterfalls." |
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