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Heron Syke, Burton-in-Kendal
Heron Syke
civil parish:-   Burton-in-Kendal (formerly Westmorland) (?) 
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   river
locality type:-   boundary
locality type:-   county boundary
1Km square:-   SD5275 (etc) 
10Km square:-   SD57
old boundary
locality:-   Westmorland boundary
locality:-   Lancashire boundary
references:-   OS County Series

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Lan 19 9) 
placename:-  Heron Syke
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.
Drawn along the west side of the Lancaster to Burton road (now A6070), about Deerslet.  "Heron Syke"
The road is labelled:-  "HERON SYKE TURNPIKE"
and further north is a boundary stone labelled:-  "County Stone (Heron Syke marked on it)"

evidence:-   descriptive text:- Otley 1823 (5th edn 1834) 
placename:-  Heron Syke
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.
image OT01P088, button  goto source
Page 88:-  "... a stream of the smallest class: as Heron-Syke near Burton - dividing the counties of Westmorland and Lancashire."

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