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Skelghyll Wood, Lakes
Skelghyll Wood
locality:-   Skelghyll
locality:-   Ambleside
civil parish:-   Lakes (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   wood
coordinates:-   NY38320310 (etc) 
1Km square:-   NY3803
10Km square:-   NY30
evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 26 10) 
placename:-  Skelgill Wood
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:-   perhaps old map:- Saxton 1579
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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Group of trees south of Ambleside. 
item:-  private collection : 2
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evidence:-   old map:- Ogilby 1675 (plate 96) 
source data:-   Road strip map, hand coloured engraving, the Road from Kendal to Cockermouth, and the Road from Egremond to Carlisle, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, by John Ogilby, London, 1675.
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In mile 12, Westmoreland. 
Woodland on the right of the road. 
item:-  JandMN : 22
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evidence:-   probably old map:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd) 
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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trees; woodland 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland
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