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Leece, Aldingham
Leece
Lies
civil parish:-   Aldingham (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   locality
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   SD24406948 (etc) 
1Km square:-   SD2469
10Km square:-   SD26

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Lan 22 9) 
placename:-  Leece
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:- West 1784 map
placename:-  Leece
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
Ws02SD26.jpg
item:-  Armitt Library : A1221.1
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evidence:-   old map:- Otley 1818
placename:-  Leece
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:-   old map:- Ford 1839 map
placename:-  Leece
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
FD02SD26.jpg
"Leece"
item:-  JandMN : 100.1
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evidence:-   old map:- Garnett 1850s-60s H
placename:-  Leece
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
GAR2SD26.jpg
"Leece"
blocks, settlement 
item:-  JandMN : 82.1
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evidence:-   old map:- Post Office 1850s-1900s
placename:-  Leece
source data:-   Post road maps, General Post Office Circulation Map for England and Wales, for the General Post Office, London, 1850s-1900s.
image  click to enlarge
POF7Cm.jpg
"Leece"
map date 1909 

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images courtesy of the British Postal Museum and Hampshire CC Museums

places:-  
SD24396929 Croft House (Aldingham)
SD24386938 Leece Tarn (Aldingham)
SD24416952 Raising House (Aldingham)
SD24436927 Tarn Foot Cottages (Aldingham)
SD24316933 Tarnside Farm (Aldingham) L
SD24446940 West View Cottage (Aldingham)
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