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Humphrey Head, Lower Allithwaite
Humphrey Head
civil parish:-   Lower Allithwaite (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   hill
coordinates:-   SD39117425 (etc) 
1Km square:-   SD3973
10Km square:-   SD37

photograph
BLU14.jpg (taken 7.4.2006)  
evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Lan 17 15) 
placename:-  Humphrey Head
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:- Otley 1818
placename:-  Humphrey Head
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
OT02SD37.jpg
item:-  JandMN : 48.1
Image © see bottom of page
evidence:-   old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s
source data:-   Photograph, b/w, Humphrey Head, Lower Allithwaite, Lancashire, by Herbert Bell, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s?
image  click to enlarge
HB0362.jpg
item:-  Armitt Library : ALPS741
Image © see bottom of page
evidence:-   old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s
source data:-   Photograph, b/w, Humphrey Head, Lower Allithwaite, Lancashire, by Herbert Bell, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s?
image  click to enlarge
HB0363.jpg
item:-  Armitt Library : ALPS742
Image © see bottom of page

photograph
BYS53.jpg  Natural arch,
(taken 7.4.2006)  

photograph
BYS49.jpg  Thrift, Armeria maritima.
(taken 5.7.2013)  
photograph
BYS50.jpg 
(taken 5.7.2013)  
photograph
BYS51.jpg  Spurge, Euphorbia sp.
(taken 5.7.2013)  
photograph
BYS52.jpg 
(taken 5.7.2013)  
story:-  
 This is one of several [many] places where the last wolf was killed in England. This one was killed by Sir John Harrington to prove his love for his lady, according to Stockdale's Annals of Cartmel.
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