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placename:-
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Cockshot Wood
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Keswick parish, once in
Cumberland
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county:-
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Cumbria
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wood
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coordinates:-
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NY265226
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10Km square:-
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NY22
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NY2622 |
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old map:- |
Clarke 1787 map (Der)
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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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COCK SHOTT
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woodland
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placename:-
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Cock Shott
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date:-
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1787
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period:-
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18th century, late; 1780s
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old map:- |
Crosthwaite 1783-94 (Der)
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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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Cock-shot / 2d. Station
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placename:-
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Cock Shot
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area
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date:-
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1783=1794
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period:-
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18th century, late; 1780s; 1790s
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descriptive text:- |
West 1778 (11th edn 1821)
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Guide book, A Guide to the Lakes, by Thomas West,
published by William Pennington, Kendal, Cumbria once
Westmorland, and in London, 1778 to 1821. |
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Addendum; Mr Gray's Journal, 1769
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Page 203:-
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Oct. 3. [at Keswick] A heavenly day; rose at seven, and
walked out under the conduct of my landlord to Borrowdale;
... Left Cockshut (which we formerly mounted) ... behind me,
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Page 206:-
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Oct. 4. ... Cockshut-hill, which lies beside it [Crow Park],
and to which I walked in the afternoon; it is covered with
young
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Page 207:-
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trees, both sown and planted, oak, spruce, Scotch fir,
&c. all which thrive wonderfully. There is an easy
ascent to the top, and the view far preferable to that on
Castle-hill ...
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placename:-
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Cockshut
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date:-
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1769
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period:-
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18th century, late; 1760s
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Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008
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