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Great Urswick, Urswick
Great Urswick
Ossick
civil parish:-   Urswick (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   locality
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   SD26897455 (etc) 
1Km square:-   SD2674
10Km square:-   SD27


photograph
CCI75.jpg  A street.
(taken 5.2.2015)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Lan 16 10) 
placename:-  Great Urswick
placename:-  Urswick, Great
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:-   probably old map:- West 1784 map
placename:-  Urswick
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, A Map of the Lakes in Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, engraved by Paas, 53 Holborn, London, about 1784.
image
Ws02SD27.jpg
item:-  Armitt Library : A1221.1
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evidence:-   probably old text:- Camden 1789 (Gough Additions) 
placename:-  Urswick
source data:-   Book, Britannia, or A Chorographical Description of the Flourishing Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, by William Camden, 1586, translated from the 1607 Latin edition by Richard Gough, published London, 1789.
image CAM2P143, button  goto source
Page 143:-  "At Urswick was found 1774, a Roman brass vessel on three feet."

evidence:-   old map:- Otley 1818
placename:-  Urswick
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, The District of the Lakes, Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Jonathan Otley, 1818, engraved by J and G Menzies, Edinburgh, Scotland, published by Jonathan Otley, Keswick, Cumberland, et al, 1833.
image
OT02SD27.jpg
item:-  JandMN : 48.1
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evidence:-   presumably old map:- Ford 1839 map
placename:-  Much Urswick
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Map of the Lake District of Cumberland, Westmoreland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by Charles Thurnam, Carlisle, and by R Groombridge, 5 Paternoster Row, London, 3rd edn 1843.
image
FD02SD27.jpg
"Much Urswick"
item:-  JandMN : 100.1
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evidence:-   old map:- Garnett 1850s-60s H
placename:-  Urswick
source data:-   Map of the English Lakes, in Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, 1850s-60s.
image
GAR2SD27.jpg
"Urswick"
blocks, settlement 
item:-  JandMN : 82.1
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places:-  
SD26887444 Church Road House (Urswick)
SD2674 Clerk's Beck (Urswick)
SD26867433 Clerk's Beck Bridge (Urswick)
SD26897469 Derby Arms (Urswick)
SD26877445 General Burgoyne (Urswick)
SD2674 Low Furness CofE Primary School (Urswick)
SD2674 Journey to Jerusalem (Urswick)
SD26927470 Mid Town House (Urswick) L
SD26767415 Priapus Stone (Urswick)
SD26847423 Great Urswick School (Urswick)
SD27127464 Urswick Hall (Urswick)
SD27017465 Urswick United Reformed Church (Urswick)
SD26837422 war memorial, Great Urswick (Urswick)
SD27037444 Urswick Tarn (Urswick)
SD26847419 St Mary and St Michael's Church (Urswick) L
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