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Little Blencow, Greystoke
Little Blencow
locality:-   Blencow
civil parish:-   Greystoke (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
locality type:-   locality
coordinates:-   NY45333278 (etc) 
1Km square:-   NY4532
10Km square:-   NY43
SummaryText:-   Little Blencow is the larger of the pair of settlements.

evidence:-   probably old print:- Clarke 1787
placename:-  Blencow Villa
source data:-   circle
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CL18.jpg
"Blencow Villa"
item:-  Armitt Library : A6615.12
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evidence:-   old map:- Otley 1818
placename:-  Blencow
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
OT02NY43.jpg
item:-  JandMN : 48.1
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evidence:-   probably old map:- Ford 1839 map
placename:-  Blencow
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
FD02NY43.jpg
"Blencow"
item:-  JandMN : 100.1
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evidence:-   old map:- Garnett 1850s-60s H
placename:-  Blencow
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
GAR2NY43.jpg
"Blencow"
blocks, settlement 
item:-  JandMN : 82.1
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photograph
CDM48.jpg  What? by the River Petteril, just over the bridge from the village.
(taken 3.7.2015)  
The arrangement suggests water troughs?

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