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placename:- Lingholm Islands
site name:- Derwent Water
parish Above Derwent parish, once in Cumberland
county:- Cumbria
island
coordinates:- NY254223
10Km square:- NY22

1Km square NY2522

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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There are other small islets; as, ... two others known by the name of Lingholms.

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

old map:- Clarke 1787 map (Der)

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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LING HOLM
single island

placename:- Ling Holm
date:- 1787
period:- 18th century, late; 1780s

old map:- Crosthwaite 1783-94 (Der)

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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island
date:- 1783=1794
period:- 18th century, late; 1780s; 1790s

Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008

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