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Powter How hill, Above Derwent
Powter How
civil parish:-   Above Derwent (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   hill
coordinates:-   NY221267
1Km square:-   NY2226
10Km square:-   NY22

evidence:-   old map:- Crosthwaite 1783-94 (Bas) 
placename:-  Powterhow
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, An Accurate Map of Broadwater or Bassenthwaite Lake, scale about 3 inches to 1 mile, by Peter Crosthwaite, Keswick, Cumberland, 1783, version published 1800.
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"Centre of Powterhow"
item:-  Armitt Library : 1959.191.4
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evidence:-   old map:- Crosthwaite 1783-94 (Bas) 
placename:-  Powerthow
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, An Accurate Map of Broadwater or Bassenthwaite Lake, scale about 3 inches to 1 mile, by Peter Crosthwaite, Keswick, Cumberland, 1783, version published 1800.
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"Powterhow the Property of Rowland Stephenson Esqr. Taken from Scarness West's 2d. Station."
item:-  Armitt Library : 1959.191.4
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evidence:-   old text:- Green 1810
placename:-  Peterhow
source data:-   Set of prints, soft ground etchings, Sixty Studies from Nature, by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, drawn 1808-10, published 1810.
image GN14p072, button  goto source
page 73:-  "[round Bassenthwaite Lake] ... From Ouse Bridge, the road is by Peterhow, a rock covered with woods, ..."

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