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placename:- Heversham
parish Heversham parish, once in Westmorland
county:- Cumbria
building/s; locality
coordinates:- SD49598360
10Km square:- SD48
1Km square SD4983
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Heversham -- Heversham -- Cumbria / -- 12.8.2005
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Heversham -- Heversham -- Cumbria / -- 30.4.2013
old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 42 15)

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.
placename:- Heversham
building/s
date:- 1890=1899
period:- 19th century, late; 1890s
old map (vignette):- Burrow 1920s

Road strip maps with parts in Westmorland, Cumberland etc, now Cumbria, irregular scale about 1.5 miles to 1 inch, by E J Burrow and Co, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, 1920s.
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date:- 1920=1929
period:- 1920s
old map:- Garnett 1850s-60s H

Map of the English Lakes, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, 1850s-60s.
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Heversham
blocks, settlement, and a cross, a church
placename:- Heversham
date:- 1850=1869
period:- 19th century, late; 1850s; 1860s
old map:- Ford 1839 map

Map of the Lake District, published in A Description of Scenery in the Lake District, by William Ford, published by Charles Thurnham, London, 1839.
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Heversham
placename:- Heversham
county:- Westmoreland
date:- 1839
period:- 19th century, early; 1830s
descriptive text:- Ford 1839 (3rd edn 1843)

Description of Scenery in the Lake District, by William Ford, published by Charles Thurnham, London, et al, 1839; published 1839-52.
Page 153:-
...
Heversham is a neat village, having a grammar-school, ... and a noble church, of which there is a very striking view in passing. ...
placename:- Heversham
date:- 1839
period:- 19th century, early; 1830s
source:- Otley 1818

New Map of the District of the Lakes, in Westmorland, Cumberland, and Lancashire, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Jonathan Otley, engraved by J and G Menzies, Edinburgh, Lothian, Scotland, published by J Otley, Keswick, Cumberland now Cumbria, 1818; pblished 1818 to 1850s.
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placename:- Heversham
old map:- Cooke 1802

Maps, Westmoreland, Cumberland, etc, now Cumbria, by George Alexander Cooke, London, 1802-10; published 1802-24.
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Haversham
blocks, italic lowercase text, village, hamlet, locality
placename:- Haversham
county:- Westmorland
date:- 1802
period:- 19th century, early; 1800s
road book:- Cary 1798 (2nd edn 1802)

Road book, Cary's New Itinerary, by John Cary, published by G and J Cary, 86 St James's Street, London, 1798-1828.
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page 315-316
Heversham
placename:- Heversham
date:- 1802
period:- 19th century, early; 1800s
old map:- West 1784 map

A Map of the Lakes in Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire, now Cumbria, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, engraved by Paas, 53 Holborn, London, included in the Guide to the Lakes by Thomas West, published by William Pennington, Kendal, Westmorland, and in London, from the 3rd edition 1784, to 1821.
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placename:- Heversham
building/s
county:- Westmorland
descriptive text:- West 1778 (11th edn 1821)

Guide book, A Guide to the Lakes, by Thomas West, published by William Pennington, Kendal, Cumbria once Westmorland, and in London, 1778 to 1821.
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Page 28:-
... [crossing Lancaster Sands] At the head of the aestuary [Kent], under a beautiful green hill, Heversham village and church appear in fine perspect[ive] ...
placename:- Heversham
date:- 1778
period:- 18th century, late; 1770s
old map:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd)

Map, The County of Westmoreland, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, surveyed by J Ainslie and perhaps T Donald, engraved and published by Thomas Jefferys, London, 1770.
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HAVERSHAM
blocks, labelled in block caps; village or parish?
placename:- Haversham
county:- Westmorland
date:- 1770
period:- 18th century, late; 1770s
old map:- Bowen and Kitchin 1760

New Map of the Counties of Cumberland and Westmoreland, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, Emanuel Bowen and Thomas Kitchin, published by T Bowles, John Bowles and Son, Robert Sayer, and John Tinney, 1760; published 1760-87.
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Heversham
circle, building and tower
placename:- Heversham
date:- 1760
period:- 18th century, late; 1760s
hearth tax returns:- Hearth Tax 1675

Records, hearth tax survey returns, Westmorland, 1674/75.
Heversham
in
Millthorp
placename:- Heversham
date:- 1675
period:- 17th century, late; 1670s
old map:- Cooper 1808

Map, Westmoreland ie Westmorland, scale about 9 miles to 1 inch, by H Cooper, 1808, published by G and W B Whittaker, 13 Ave Maria Lane, London, 1824.
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Haversham
circle; village or hamlet
placename:- Haversham
locality:- Kendal Ward
county:- Westmorland
date:- 1808
period:- 19th century, early; 1800s
market notes:- see:- Palmer's Index No.93:: Public Record Office

Wednesday market granted by Edward III to Alexander de Wyndesore and John de Wodehouse, parson, 5 August 1334; listed in the Calendar of Charter Rolls.
Letter patent for a market at Heversham, 8 Ed 3, 1334-35, in Palmer's Index No.93 at the Public Record Office.
other name:- Heversham
market town
person:- : Edward III
person:- : Wyndesore, Alexander de
person:- clergyman : Wodehouse, John de
date:- 1334
hearsay Richard Watson, Bishop of Llandaff, was born here, 1737, son of the master of the grammar school. He attended Trinity College, Cambridge, and after, without any knowledge of chemistry, became Professor of Chemistry there. He knew as much divinity, but became Regius Professor of Divinity, and then Bishop of Llandaff. He raised sheep at Calgarth, and rarely attended to his cathedral in Wales.
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button   Plumtree Hall, Heversham
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button   school, Heversham
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