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placename:- Derwent Bay
site name:- Derwent Bay
parish Above Derwent parish, once in Cumberland
county:- Cumbria
building/s
coordinates:- NY25082150
10Km square:- NY22

1Km square NY2521

old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 64)

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.
Derwent Bay

placename:- Derwent Bay
date:- 1890=1899
period:- 19th century, late; 1890s

old map:- Ford 1839 map

Map of the Lake District, published in A Description of Scenery in the Lake District, by William Ford, published by Charles Thurnham, London, 1839.
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Water End

placename:- Water End
county:- Westmoreland
date:- 1839
period:- 19th century, early; 1830s

descriptive text:- Otley 1823 (5th edn 1834)

Guidebook, Concise Description of the English Lakes, later A Description of the English Lakes, by Jonathan Otley, published by the author, Keswick, Cumberland, by J Richardson, London, and by Arthur Foster, Kirky Lonsdale, Cumbria, 1823 onwards.
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... a pleasant elevation above the woods of Lady William Gordon, the house, formerly called Water End, now Derwentwater Bay, standing sweetly sheltered on the margin of the lake. From this elevation, the lake, with its islands, bays, and promontories, is seen to great advantage.

placename:- Derwentwater Bay
other name:- Water End
person:- : Gordon, William, Lady
date:- 1823
period:- 19th century, early; 1820s

old map:- Clarke 1787 map (Der)

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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WATER END
buildings

placename:- Water End
date:- 1787
period:- 18th century, late; 1780s

old map:- Crosthwaite 1783-94 (Der) -- probably relevant

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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Water-End / Ld. Wm. Gordon's

placename:- Water End
person:- : Gordon, William, Lord
house
date:- 1783=1794
period:- 18th century, late; 1780s; 1790s

old map:- Donald 1774

Water End

placename:- Water End
date:- 1774
period:- 18th century, late; 1770s

Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008

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