Old Cumbria Gazetteer

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	placename:-	Heversham
	parish	Heversham parish, once in Westmorland
	county:-	Cumbria
		building/s
	coordinates:-	SD497833
	10Km square:-	SD48
	1Km square	SD4983
		Heversham -- Heversham -- Cumbria / -- 12.8.2005
	old map (vignette):-	Burrow 1920s
		Road strip maps with parts in Westmorland, Cumberland etc, now Cumbria, irregular scale about 1.5 miles to 1 inch, by E J Burrow and Co, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, 1920s.
	date:-	1920=1929
	period:-	1920s
	old map:-	Garnett 1850s-60s H
		Map of the English Lakes, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, 1850s-60s.
		Heversham
		blocks, settlement, and a cross, a church
	placename:-	Heversham
	date:-	1850=1869
	period:-	19th century, late; 1850s; 1860s
	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.
		Heversham
	placename:-	Heversham
	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 153:-
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		Heversham is a neat village, having a grammar-school, ... and a noble church, of which there is a very striking view in passing. ...
	placename:-	Heversham
	date:-	1839
	period:-	19th century, early; 1830s
	source:-	Otley 1818
		New Map of the District of the Lakes, in Westmorland, Cumberland, and Lancashire, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Jonathan Otley, engraved by J and G Menzies, Edinburgh, Lothian, Scotland, published by J Otley, Keswick, Cumberland now Cumbria, 1818; pblished 1818 to 1850s.
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	placename:-	Heversham
	old map:-	West 1784 map
		A Map of the Lakes in Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire, now Cumbria, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, engraved by Paas, 53 Holborn, London, included in the Guide to the Lakes by Thomas West, published by William Pennington, Kendal, Westmorland, and in London, from the 3rd edition 1784, to 1821.
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	placename:-	Heversham
		building/s
	county:-	Westmorland
	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.
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		Page 28:-
		... [crossing Lancaster Sands] At the head of the aestuary [Kent], under a beautiful green hill, Heversham village and church appear in fine perspect[ive] ...
	placename:-	Heversham
	date:-	1778
	period:-	18th century, late; 1770s
	old map:-	Bowen and Kitchin 1760
		New Map of the Counties of Cumberland and Westmoreland, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, Emanuel Bowen and Thomas Kitchin, published by T Bowles, John Bowles and Son, Robert Sayer, and John Tinney, 1760; published 1760-87.
		Heversham
		circle, building and tower
	placename:-	Heversham
	date:-	1760
	period:-	18th century, late; 1760s
	market notes:-	see:- Palmer's Index No.93:: Public Record Office
		Wednesday market granted by Edward III to Alexander de Wyndesore and John de Wodehouse, parson, 5 August 1334; listed in the Calendar of Charter Rolls.
		Letter patent for a market at Heversham, 8 Ed 3, 1334-35, in Palmer's Index No.93 at the Public Record Office.
	other name:-	Heversham
	person:-	: Edward III
	person:-	: Wyndesore, Alexander de
	person:-	clergyman : Wodehouse, John de
		market town
	date:-	1334
	hearth tax returns:-	Hearth Tax 1675
		Heversham
		in
		Millthorp
	placename:-	Heversham
	date:-	1675
	period:-	17th century, late; 1670s
	road book:-	Cary 1798 (2nd edn 1802)
		Road book, Cary's New Itinerary, by John Cary, published by G and J Cary, 86 St James's Street, London, 1798-1828.
		page 315-316
		Heversham
	placename:-	Heversham
	date:-	1802
	period:-	19th century, early; 1800s
	hearsay	Richard Watson, Bishop of Llandaff, was born here, 1737, son of the master of the grammar school. He attended Trinity College, Cambridge, and after, without any knowledge of chemistry, became Professor of Chemistry there. He knew as much divinity, but became Regius Professor of Divinity, and then Bishop of Llandaff. He raised sheep at Calgarth, and rarely attended to his cathedral in Wales.
	Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008

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