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placename:- Glencoyne
locality:- Glencoyne
parish Patterdale parish, once in Westmorland
county:- Cumbria
building/s
coordinates:- NY38451869
10Km square:- NY31

1Km square NY3818

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Glencoyne -- Glencoyne -- Patterdale -- Cumbria / -- 25.8.2007
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Glencoyne -- Glencoyne -- Patterdale -- Cumbria / -- 17.10.2007

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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Glencoyne

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

descriptive text:- Ford 1839 (3rd edn 1843)

Description of Scenery in the Lake District, by William Ford, published by Charles Thurnham, London, et al, 1839; published 1839-52.
Page 147:-
... lurking in a recess, is Glencoin, a farm-house belonging to Henry Howard, Esq., in a rich cultivated bottom, with high and splendidly-wooded mountains in the back-ground: ...

placename:- Glencoin
person:- : Howard, Henry
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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Page 9:-
... Glencoin is a farm placed in a sweet recess, where a brook divides the counties of Cumberland and Westmorland. ...

placename:- Glencoin
date:- 1823
period:- 19th century, early; 1820s

old map:- Clarke 1787 map (Ullswater)

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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GLENCOYN

placename:- Glencoyn
house
date:- 1787
period:- 18th century, late; 1780s

old map:- Crosthwaite 1783-94 (Ull)

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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Glen coin / Mr. Hoskin's

placename:- Glen Coin
person:- : Hoskin, Mr
house
date:- 1783=1794
period:- 18th century, late; 1780s; 1790s

database:- Listed Buildings 2010

Listed Buildings 2010

courtesy of English Heritage
GLENCOYNE / / / PATTERDALE / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II[star] / 452384 / NY3846618685
courtesy of English Heritage
Early C17. White-washed stone rubble, slate roof with stepped gables and two fat round chimneys. 2 storeys. Centre gabled porch, 5 windows on ground floor and 4 above, all small-paned with small opening lights and deeply set in thick walls. Built into the hillside, the east end being lower. Rear wing circa 1700. Farm buildings adjoin on east end in long rectangular plan, with segmental headed windows, probably C19. Interior with beads, cupboards, staircase, doors, and plaster panel dated 1629.

placename:- Glencoyne
district:- Eden
listed building
coordinates:- NY38461868
date:- 2010
period:- 2010s

hearsay There is a plaster panel in the farm house:-
T.H.D.H. 1629
referring to the Howard Family

Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008

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