Old Cumbria Gazetteer

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	placename:-	Branstree
	other name:-	Brant Street
	parish	Longsleddale parish, once in Westmorland
	parish	Shap Rural parish, once in Westmorland
	county:-	Cumbria
		hill
	coordinates:-	NY47820993
	10Km square:-	NY40
	Altitude	2340 feet
	1Km square	NY4709
		Branstree -- Longsleddale and Shap Rural -- Cumbria / -- 4.3.2008
	source:-	OS 1881-82 New Series (outline edition)
		Maps, parts of Westmorland, Cumberland, etc now Cumbria, New Series 1 inch maps of England, published by the Ordnance Survey, London, 1881-82; sheets 7, 11, 12, 16..19, 22..25, 28..31, 37..40, 47..50, 58.
		2333
	Altitude	2333 feet
	date:-	1881=1882
	period:-	19th century, late; 1880s
	old map:-	Garnett 1850s-60s H
		Map of the English Lakes, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, 1850s-60s.
		Branstree
		hill hachuring
	placename:-	Branstree
	date:-	1850=1869
	period:-	19th century, late; 1850s; 1860s
	old map:-	Hodgson 1828
		Map, 4 sheets, Westmorland, by T Hodgson, scale about 1 1/4 inches to 1 mile, engraved by W R Gardner, ?published by C Smith, 1828.
	placename:-	Branstree
	date:-	1823
	period:-	19th century, early
	source:-	Prior 1865
		Pages 113-347 have descriptions of mountains, amongst which:-
		Brandstreet.- 2,333 feet.
		This mountain forms the eastern boundary of the Gatescarth Pass between Longsleddale and Mardale.
	placename:-	Branstreet
	date:-	1865
	period:-	19th century, late; 1860s
	old print:-	Black 1856 (23rd edn 1900)
		Guide book, Black's Guide to the English Lakes, published by Adam and Charles Black, North Bridge, Edinburgh, Lothian, Scotland, or Soho Square, London, 1856 to 1900s onwards.
		Print, lithograph, Outline Views, Haws and Wastwater - Mountains as seen from Burn-Banks near the Foot of Hawes Water, and Mountains as seen near Nether Wastdale at the First Bridge on the road to Wast-Water, by J Flintoft, Keswick, Cumberland, engraved by R Mason, Edinburgh, Lothian, about 1900.
		... 2 Branstree ...
	placename:-	Branstree
	date:-	1900
	period:-	1900s
	old print:-	Black 1841 (3rd edn 1846)
		Guide book, Black's Picturesque Guide to the English Lakes, published by Adam and Charles Blck, North Bridge, Edinburgh, Lothian, Scotland, 1841 to 1888.
		Print, engraving, outline view, Mountains as seen from Burn Banks near the Foot of Hawes Water, and Mountains as seen near Strands in Wastdale at the First bridge on the Road to Wast Water, by J Flintoft, Keswick, Cumberland, engraved by R Mason, Edinburgh, Lothian, about 1846.
		... 2 Branstree ...
	placename:-	Branstree
	date:-	1844
	period:-	19th century, early
		Possibly this was originally the name of the track from Mardale to Longsleddale, brant stree = steep path, but now the name of the hillside above the lake. EPNS Westmorland 1967
	Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008

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