Old Cumbria Gazetteer

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	placename:-	Lilies of the Valley
	site name:-	Windermere lake
	parish	Windermere parish, once in Westmorland
	county:-	Cumbria
		island
	coordinates:-	SD389966
	coordinates:-	SD391966
	10Km square:-	SD39
	1Km square	SD3896
		Lilies of the Valley -- Windermere lake -- Windermere -- Cumbria / -- the W island. -- 12.5.2008
		Lilies of the Valley -- Windermere lake -- Windermere -- Cumbria / -- the E island. -- 12.5.2008
	old map:-	Clarke 1787 map (Windermere N)
		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.
		The two Lillys of the Valley
		Two islands are shown.
	placename:-	Two Lillys of the Valley
		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.
		2 Lily of the Valley holms
		two islands
	placename:-	Lily of the Valley Holms
	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] ... And two smaller islets borrow their names form the lilies of the valley, which decorate them.
	date:-	1778
	period:-	18th century, late; 1770s
	Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008

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