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Lowther
civil parish:-   Lowther (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   NY53632363 (etc) 
1Km square:-   NY5323
10Km square:-   NY52

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evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 8 5) 
placename:-  Lowther
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:- Saxton 1579
placename:-  Lowther
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmorlandiae et Cumberlandiae Comitatus ie Westmorland and Cumberland, scale about 5 miles to 1 inch, by Christopher Saxton, London, engraved by Augustinus Ryther, 1576, published 1579-1645.
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Church, symbol for a parish or village, with a parish church.  "Lowther"
item:-  private collection : 2
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evidence:-   old map:- Speed 1611 (Wmd) 
placename:-  Lowther
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, The Countie Westmorland and Kendale the Cheif Towne, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Speed, 1610, published by George Humble, Popes Head Alley, London, 1611-12.
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"Lowther"
circle, building and tower 
item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.14.5
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evidence:-   old map:- Jansson 1646
placename:-  Lowther
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Cumbria and Westmoria, ie Cumberland and Westmorland, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Jansson, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1646.
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"Lowther"
Buildings and tower. 
item:-  JandMN : 88
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evidence:-   probably old map:- Seller 1694 (Wmd) 
placename:-  Lowther
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmorland, scale about 8 miles to 1 inch, by John Seller, 1694.
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"Lowther"
no symbol 
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2007.38.87
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evidence:-   old map:- Morden 1695 (Cmd) 
placename:-  Lowther
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Cumberland, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Robert Morden, 1695, published by Abel Swale, the Unicorn, St Paul's Churchyard, Awnsham, and John Churchill, the Black Swan, Paternoster Row, London, 1695-1715.
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"Lowther"
Circle, building and tower. 
item:-  JandMN : 90
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evidence:-   old map:- Morden 1695 (Wmd) 
placename:-  Lowther
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmorland, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by Robert Morden, published by Abel Swale, the Unicorn, St Paul's Churchyard, Awnsham, and John Churchill, the Black Swan, Paternoster Row, London, 1695.
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"Lowther"
Circle, building and tower. 
item:-  JandMN : 24
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evidence:-   old map:- Bowen and Kitchin 1760
placename:-  Lowther
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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"Lowther / R"
circle, building and tower, rectory 
item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.14.10
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evidence:-   old map:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd) 
placename:-  New Village
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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"New Village"
blocks, labelled in upright lowercase text; settlement; town?, includes parts never built 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
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evidence:-   old map:- West 1784 map
placename:-  New Village
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.
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Drawn as two semicircles of buildings. 
item:-  Armitt Library : A1221.1
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evidence:-   old text:- Camden 1789
placename:-  Loder
source data:-   Book, Britannia, or A Chorographical Description of the Flourishing Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, by William Camden, 1586, translated from the 1607 Latin edition by Richard Gough, published London, 1789.
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Page 149:-  "[On the] Loder is also a place of the same name, which, like Strickland in its neighbourhood, gave name to families of antient renown."
evidence:-   old text:- Camden 1789 (Gough Additions) 
item:-  placename, Lowther
source data:-   Book, Britannia, or A Chorographical Description of the Flourishing Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, by William Camden, 1586, translated from the 1607 Latin edition by Richard Gough, published London, 1789.
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Page 161:-  "..."
"Olaus Wormius consulted by Spelman finds Loder or Lother a common name among the antient kings of Denmark, and derives it from Loth and Er, q.d. fortunate honor. The name of Lothair is also frequent among the German emperors. Perhaps however both the name and seat of Lowther here, as Lauder in Scotland, are to be derived from the neighbouring river, which in British signifies clear water, Gladdwr. ..."
"... The family have figured here for many generations from the time of Henry II. Sir John Lowther, who was keeper of the privy seal and one of the lords justices during the absence of William III. 1699, was advanced 1696 to the dignity of baron Lowther viscount Lonsdale, which became extinct in his grandson. The first viscount built here 1685 a handsome house (which was burnt down 1720), and rebuilt and furnished the church. Christopher, another branch of this family, was created a baronet 11 Charles I. which honour ended in his grandson James, who died immensely rich 1755, and in the title of baronet and the estate was succeeded by James Lowther, a descendant from one common ancestor, and created earl of Lonsdale 1784."
evidence:-   old map:- Cary 1789 (edn 1805) 
placename:-  New Village
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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"New Village"
block/s, labelled in italic lowercase; house, or hamlet 
item:-  JandMN : 129
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evidence:-   probably old map:- Laurie and Whittle 1806
placename:-  New Village
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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"New Village 283ΒΌ"
village or other place; distance from London 
item:-  private collection : 18.18
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evidence:-   old map:- Cooper 1808
placename:-  Lowther
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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"Lowther"
circle; village or hamlet 
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2007.38.53
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evidence:-   old map:- Otley 1818
placename:-  Lowther
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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"LOWTHER"
item:-  JandMN : 48.1
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evidence:-   perhaps old map:- Hall 1820 (Wmd) 
placename:-  Newtown
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmoreland ie Westmorland, scale about 14.5 miles to 1 inch, by Sidney Hall, London, 1820, published by Samuel Leigh, 18 Strand, London, 1820-31.
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"Newtown"
circle, italic lowercase text; settlement; marked on the main road 
Lowther village and Newtown seem to be muddled on this map 
item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.14.58
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evidence:-   descriptive text:- Otley 1823 (5th edn 1834) 
item:-  geology
source data:-   Guide book, A Concise Description of the English Lakes, the mountains in their vicinity, and the roads by which they may be visited, with remarks on the mineralogy and geology of the district, by Jonathan Otley, published by the author, Keswick, Cumberland now Cumbria, by J Richardson, London, and by Arthur Foster, Kirkby Lonsdale, Cumbria, 1823; published 1823-49, latterly as the Descriptive Guide to the English Lakes.
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Page 161:-  "A superincumbent bed of limestone, by some called the mountain, by others the upper transition limestone, mantles round these mountains, in a position unconformable to the strata of the slaty and other rocks upon which it reposes. It bassets out near ... Dacre, Lowther and Shap; ..."
evidence:-   old text:- Gents Mag
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 1825 part 1 p.514 
From the Compendium of County History:-  "[Smith] John, a divine, particularly versed in Septentrional literature and in antiquities, Lowther, 1659."
evidence:-   old map:- Ford 1839 map
placename:-  Lowther
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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"Lowther"
item:-  JandMN : 100.1
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evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Lowther Village
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"/ 40513 / LOWTHER VILLAGE / LOWTHER / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II[star] / 74357 / NY5355723650"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"12 houses. 1766-73 by Robert Adam, as estate houses for Sir James Lowther, part of a model village which was never completed. Mixed sandstone rubble walls with string courses and eaves cornices. Hipped graduated greenslate roofs with banded cement-rendered chimney stacks. Built in open courtyard plan with "palace" facades on 3 sides of a square. Closing the courtyard at one end is a 2-storey, 7-bay house. The longer sides have similar central houses, at either side of which are 2-storey, 3-bay houses flanked by single-storey, 2-bay wings, all joined in a continuous row. Each central house has recessed 3-bay centre and flanking gabled wings. Central plank doors in plain openings with sandstone lintels; wings have off-centre doors. Regularly-spaced C20 casement windows with glazing bars, in plain reveals with red sandstone lintels and sills. Originally divided into 16 houses but altered with HBC grant in 1965. See Ancient Monuments Society's Transactions, 14, pp.57-73, R.W. Brunskill, Lowther Village and Robert Adam."
evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"/ 28-33 / LOWTHER VILLAGE / LOWTHER / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II[star] / 74361 / NY5362023682"
evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"/ 28-33 / LOWTHER VILLAGE / LOWTHER / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II[star] / 74360 / NY5360823677"
evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"/ 17-27 / LOWTHER VILLAGE / LOWTHER / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II[star] / 74358 / NY5360323646"

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hearsay:-  
 The 'new' village was built 1773. It was inspired by a sketch of a model village drawn by Robert Adam for Sir James Lowther.
reference:-  
 Lowther

Adams, Douglas & Lloyd, John: 1990: Deeper Meaning of Life, The: Pan Books &Faber and Faber
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