Old Cumbria Gazetteer

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	placename:-	Grass Holme
	site name:-	Windermere lake
	parish	Windermere parish, once in Westmorland
	county:-	Cumbria
		island
	coordinates:-	SD382925
	10Km square:-	SD39
	1Km square	SD3892
		Grass Holme -- Windermere lake -- Windermere -- Cumbria / -- 12.5.2008
	old map:-	Clarke 1787 map (Windermere S)
		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.
		Grass-holm
	placename:-	Grass Holm
		island
	date:-	1787
	period:-	18th century, late; 1780s
	old map:-	Crosthwaite 1783-94 (Win/Ble)
		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.
		Grass holm
		island
	placename:-	Grass Holm
	date:-	1783=1794
	period:-	18th century, late; 1780s; 1790s
	descriptive text:-	West 1778 (11th edn 1821)
		Guide book, A Guide to the Lakes, by Thomas West, published by William Pennington, Kendal, Cumbria once Westmorland, and in London, 1778 to 1821.
		goto source.
		Page 58:-
		[Windermere] ... Grass-holme is shaded with a grove of oaks.
	date:-	1778
	period:-	18th century, late; 1770s
	old print:-	Tattersall 1836 (version 1869)
		Print, hand coloured, Lower Reach, Windermere, Westmorland, drawn by George Tattersall, 1836, engraved by W F Topham, published by T J Allman, 463 Oxford Street, London, 1869.
		Frontispiece to The Lakes of England, by W F Topham.
		printed at bottom:-
		LOWER REACH - WINDERMERE.
		printed at bottom:-
		Cartmel Fells. / Rawlinson's Nab. / Grisedale Fell.
	date:-	1836
	period:-	19th century, early
	old print:-	Tattersall 1836
		Print, engraving, Lower Reach, Windermere, Westmorland, drawn by George Tattersall, engraved by W F Topham, published by Sherwood and Co, Paternoster Row, London, about 1836.
		The print is captioned with mountain names and acts as an outline view.
		Tipped in opposite p.30 of The Lakes of England, by George Tattersall.
		printed at bottom:-
		LOWER REACH, WINDERMERE. / Pubd April 15th. 1836, by Sherwood & Co. / [London]
		printed at bottom left to right:-
		Cartmel Fells. / Rawlinson's Nab. / Grisedale Fell.
	date:-	1836
	period:-	19th century, early
	Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008

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