Old Cumbria Gazetteer

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	placename:-	Elterwater
	parish	Lakes parish, once in Westmorland
	county:-	Cumbria
		building/s
	coordinates:-	NY327047
	10Km square:-	NY30
	1Km square	NY3204
		Elterwater -- Lakes -- Cumbria / -- 17.11.2005
		Elterwater -- Lakes -- Cumbria / -- 17.11.2005
	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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		Elterwater is one of the largest of the Tarns; and having given its name to a small hamlet in Langdale, it became necessary in speaking of
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		the water itself, to add the word tarn by way of distinction. ...
	date:-	1823
	period:-	19th century, early; 1820s
	Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008

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