Old Cumbria Gazetteer
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| There was gone. | ||
| placename:- | Bryers Fold | |
| other name:- | Bryerswood | |
| locality:- | Far Sawrey | |
| parish |
Claife parish, once in
Lancashire
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| county:- | Cumbria | |
| building/s | ||
| coordinates:- |
SD38189523 | |
| 10Km square:- |
SD39
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| 1Km square | SD3895 | |
| old map:- |
OS County Series (Lan 5)
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| 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. | ||
| Briers | ||
| in large wooded grounds | ||
| placename:- | Briers | |
| other name:- | Bryers | |
| date:- | 1860=1869 | |
| period:- | 19th century, late; 1860s | |
| old map:- |
OS County Series
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| 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. | ||
| placename:- | Bryers | |
| old map:- |
Clarke 1787 map (Windermere
S)
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| Map series, lakes and roads to the Lakes, by James Clarke, engraved by S J Neele, 352 Strand, London, included in A Survey of the Lakes of Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire, published by James Clarke, Penrith, and in London etc, from 1787 to 1793. | ||
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| Briers | ||
| placename:- | Briers | |
| house | ||
| date:- | 1787 | |
| period:- | 18th century, late; 1780s | |
| old map:- |
Crosthwaite 1783-94
(Win/Ble)
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| Series of maps, An Accurate Map of the Matchless Lake of Derwent, of the Grand Lake of Windermere, of the Beautiful Lake of Ullswater, of Broadwater or Bassenthwaite Lake, of Coniston Lake, of Buttermere, Crummock and Loweswater Lakes, and Pocklington's Island, by Peter Crosthwaite, Kendal, Cumberland now Cumbria, 1783 to 1794. | ||
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| Briers | ||
| block, building/s | ||
| placename:- | Briers | |
| date:- | 1783=1794 | |
| period:- | 18th century, late; 1780s; 1790s | |
| notes |
Built 1887 for Joseph Ridgway Bridson of Bolton, on west
shore of Windermere lake. The architect was Richard Knill
Freeman; the landscaping by Thomas H Mawson. Only the
kitchen garden and greenhouse now remain (2009).
Waymark, Janet: 2009: Thomas Mawson, Life, Gardens and Landscapes: Lincoln, Francis (London) | |
| Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008 | ||
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