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| Bennethead Banks, Matterdale | ||
| Bennethead Banks | ||
| locality:- | Bennet Head | |
| civil parish:- | Matterdale (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | hill | |
| coordinates:- | NY44402435 (etc) | |
| 1Km square:- | NY4424 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY42 | |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 66 1) placename:- Bennethead Banks |
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| 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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| evidence:- | old text:- Clarke 1787 placename:- Benethead Banks item:- placename, Bennethead |
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| source data:- | Guide book, A Survey of the Lakes of Cumberland, Westmorland,
and Lancashire, written and published by James Clarke, Penrith,
Cumberland, and in London etc, 1787; published 1787-93. goto sourcepage 25:- "..." "Benethead-Banks, and Benethead-Villages, have undoubtedly taken their names from this monastery [suggested religious house on Dunmallard Hill], as lying at the upper end of its territories. ..." |
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