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Whirl Howe, Longsleddale
Whirl Howe
civil parish:-   Longsleddale (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   tumulus
coordinates:-   NY48600534
1Km square:-   NY4805
10Km square:-   NY40


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BZV67.jpg (taken 11.2.2014)  
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BTX69.jpg (taken 22.1.2011)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 27 7) 
placename:-  Whirl Howe
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.
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"Whirl Howe"

evidence:-   old map:- Fields 1875
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courtesy of Ruth Fishwick
piece no = 80 

evidence:-   textbook:- EPNS Westmorland 1967
placename:-  Wharlehowemyer
source data:-   Book, The Place Names of Westmorland, two volumes, by A H Smith, published for the English Place Name Society by Cambridge University Press, Cambridgeshire, 1967

evidence:-   map:- OS Six Inch (1956) 
placename:-  Whirl Howe
source data:-   Map series, various editions with the national grid, scale about 6 inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, scale 1 to 10560 from 1950s to 1960s, then 1 to 10000 from 1960s to 2000s, superseded by print on demand from digital data.
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"Whirl Howe"
marked as a tumulus 

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