Old Cumbria Gazetteer

Heversham

civil parish:-

Heversham (formerly Westmorland)

county:-

Cumbria

locality type:-

locality

locality type:-

buildings

coordinates:-

SD49578341 (etc)

1Km square:-

SD4983

10Km square:-

SD48

BJR89.jpg (taken 12.8.2005)
photograph

BYG78.jpg (taken 30.4.2013)

evidence:-

old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 42 15)
placename:- Heversham

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 map:- Mercator 1595 (edn?)
placename:- Heversham

source data:-

Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmorlandia, Lancastria, Cestria etc, ie Westmorland, Lancashire, Cheshire etc, scale about 10.5 miles to 1 inch, by Gerard Mercator, Duisberg, Germany, 1595, edition 1613-16.

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"Heversham"
circle
item:- Armitt Library : 2008.14.3
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evidence:-

hearth tax returns:- Hearth Tax 1675
placename:- Heversham

source data:-

Records, hearth tax survey returns, Westmorland, 1674/75.
"Heversham"
in "Millthorp"

evidence:-

old map:- Bowen and Kitchin 1760
placename:- Heversham

source data:-

Map, hand coloured engraving, A New Map of the Counties of Cumberland and Westmoreland Divided into their Respective Wards, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Emanuel Bowen and Thomas Kitchin et al, published by T Bowles, Robert Sayer, and John Bowles, London, 1760.

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"Heversham"
circle, building and tower
item:- Armitt Library : 2008.14.10
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evidence:-

old map:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd)
placename:- Haversham

source data:-

Map, 4 sheets, The County of Westmoreland, scale 1 inch to 1 mile, surveyed 1768, and engraved and published by Thomas Jefferys, London, 1770.

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"HAVERSHAM"
blocks, labelled in block caps; village or parish?
item:- National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland

evidence:-

descriptive text:- West 1778 (11th edn 1821)
placename:- Heversham

source data:-

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] ..."

evidence:-

old map:- West 1784 map
placename:- Heversham

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.

Ws02SD48.jpg
item:- Armitt Library : A1221.1
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evidence:-

old map:- Cary 1789 (edn 1805)
placename:- Haversham

source data:-

Map, uncoloured engraving, Westmoreland, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Cary, London, 1789; edition 1805.

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"Haversham"
blocks, church symbol, labelled in upright lowercase; village
item:- JandMN : 129
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evidence:-

old text:- Gents Mag
item:- botany; flower; Malva sylvestris; Bromus madritensis; Convulvulus arvensis

source data:-

Magazine, The Gentleman's Magazine or Monthly Intelligencer or Historical Chronicle, published by Edward Cave under the pseudonym Sylvanus Urban, and by other publishers, London, monthly from 1731 to 1922.

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Gentleman's Magazine 1794 p.326 "A NATURALIST'S RAMBLE IN THE NORTH."
"(Concluded from p.113)."
"AFTER leaving Levens, the park, and river, we soon reached Heversham. This village presents the Malva Sylvestris to the North country Naturalist; a plant which he considers as a botanical acquisition. We also picked up by the way the Bromus Madritensis, and the Convulvulus Arvensis."

evidence:-

road book:- Cary 1798 (2nd edn 1802)
placename:- Heversham

source data:-

Road book, itineraries, Cary's New Itinerary, by John Cary, 181 Strand, London, 2nd edn 1802.

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C38315.jpg
page 315-316 "Heversham"
item:- JandMN : 228.1
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evidence:-

old map:- Cooke 1802
placename:- Haversham

source data:-

Map, Westmoreland ie Westmorland, scale about 12 miles to 1 inch, by George Cooke, 1802, published by Sherwood, Jones and Co, Paternoster Road, London, 1824.

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GRA1Wd.jpg
"Haversham"
blocks, italic lowercase text, village, hamlet, locality
item:- Hampshire Museums : FA2000.62.4
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evidence:-

possibly old map:- Laurie and Whittle 1806

source data:-

Road map, Completion of the Roads to the Lakes, scale about 10 miles to 1 inch, by Nathaniel Coltman? 1806, published by Robert H Laurie, 53 Fleet Street, London, 1834.

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Lw18.jpg
"Haver[ ]"
village or other place
item:- private collection : 18.18
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evidence:-

old map:- Cooper 1808
placename:- Haversham

source data:-

Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmoreland ie Westmorland, scale about 9 miles to 1 inch, by H Cooper, 1808, published by R Phillips, Bridge Street, Blackfriars, London, 1808.

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COP4.jpg
"Haversham"
circle; village or hamlet
item:- Dove Cottage : 2007.38.53
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evidence:-

old map:- Wallis 1810 (Wmd)
placename:- Haversham

source data:-

Road map, Westmoreland, scale about 19 miles to 1 inch, by James Wallis, 77 Berwick Street, Soho, 1810, published by W Lewis, Finch Lane, London, 1835?

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WAL5.jpg
"Haversham"
village, hamlet, house, ...
item:- JandMN : 63
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evidence:-

old map:- Otley 1818
placename:- Heversham

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.

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item:- JandMN : 48.1
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evidence:-

old text:- Gents Mag

source data:-

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Gentleman's Magazine 1825 part 1 p.514
From the Compendium of County History:- "WATSON, RICHARD, excellent and learned Bishop of Llandaff, Heversham, 1737."

evidence:-

descriptive text:- Ford 1839 (3rd edn 1843)
placename:- Heversham

source data:-

Guide book, A Description of Scenery in the Lake District, by Rev William Ford, published by Charles Thurnam, Carlisle, by W Edwards, 12 Ave Maria Lane, Charles Tilt, Fleet Street, William Smith, 113 Fleet Street, London, by Currie and Bowman, Newcastle, by Bancks and Co, Manchester, by Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh, and by Sinclair, Dumfries, 1839.

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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. ..."

evidence:-

old map:- Ford 1839 map
placename:- Heversham

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.

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"Heversham"
item:- JandMN : 100.1
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evidence:-

old map:- Garnett 1850s-60s H
placename:- Heversham

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.

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"Heversham"
blocks, settlement, and a cross, a church
item:- JandMN : 82.1
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evidence:-

old map:- Burrow 1920s

source data:-

Road book, On the Road, Dunlop Pictorial Road Plans, volume V, strip maps with parts in Westmorland, Cumberland etc, irregular scale about 1.5 miles to 1 inch, by E J Burrow and Co, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, 1920s.

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item:- private collection : 17
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evidence:-

market notes:-
placename:- Heversham
item:- market

source data:-

www.history.ac.uk/cmh/gaz/gazweb2.htmPalmer's Index No.93:: Public Record Office

evidence:-

old map:- Post Office 1850s-1900s
placename:- Heversham

source data:-

Post road maps, General Post Office Circulation Map for England and Wales, for the General Post Office, London, 1850s-1900s.

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POF7Cm.jpg
"Heversham"
map date 1909

images courtesy of the British Postal Museum and Hampshire CC Museums

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.

personal

person:-

clergyman
: Watson, Richard; Llandaff, Bishop of

place:-

birthplace

date:-

1737

places:-