Old Cumbria Gazetteer

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	placename:-	Low Hesket
	parish	Hesket parish, once in Cumberland
	county:-	Cumbria
		building/s
	coordinates:-	NY465463
	10Km square:-	NY44
	1Km square	NY4646
		Low Hesket -- Hesket -- Cumbria / -- 22.10.2010
	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.
		Low Hesket
		blocks, settlement
	placename:-	Low Hesket
	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.
		Low Hesket
	placename:-	Low Hesket
	county:-	Cumberland
	date:-	1839
	period:-	19th century, early; 1830s
	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.
		War Hesketh
		blocks, on road
	placename:-	War Hesketh
	date:-	1760
	period:-	18th century, late; 1760s
	descriptive text:-	Simpson 1746 -- perhaps relevant
		The three volumes of maps and descriptive text published as 'The Agreeable Historian, or the Compleat English Traveller ...', by Samuel Simpson, 1746.
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		... Nether Hesketh, the late Mr. Lawson's ...
	placename:-	Nether Hesketh
	person:-	: Lawson, Mr
	date:-	1746
	period:-	18th century, early; 1740s
	old map:-	Bowen 1720 (plate 94)
		Road book, Britannia Depicta Or Ogilby Improv'd, including road strip maps with sections in Westmorland, scale about 2 miles to 1 inch, derived from maps by Ogilby, 1675, and a county map of Westmorland, scale about 8 miles to 1 inch, with text by John Owen, published by Emanuel Bowen, London, 1720; published 1720-64.
		Wa[r] Hesket
	placename:-	War Hesket
	other name:-	Hesket, War
	date:-	1720
	period:-	18th century, early; 1720s
	old map:-	Ogilby 1675 (plate 38)
		Road book, Britannia, strip road maps, with sections in Westmorland and Cumberland etc, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, by John Ogilby, London, 1675; and a general map of England and Wales.
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		In mile 293, Cumberland.
		War Hesket
		houses each side of the road.
	placename:-	War Hesket
	date:-	1675
	period:-	17th century, late; 1670s
	old map:-	Saxton 1576 -- probably relevant
		Map, Westmorlandiae et Cumberlandiae Comitatus ie Westmorland and Cumberland, scale about 5 miles to 1 inch, by Christopher Saxton, London, engraved by Augustinus Ryther, 1576; published 1579-1645.
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		Church, symbol for a parish or village, with a parish church.
		Hesket
	placename:-	Hesket
	county:-	Cumberlandia
		village
	date:-	1576
	period:-	16th century, late; 1570s
	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 267-268
		Lower Hesket
		page 283-284
		Lower Hesket
	placename:-	Lower Hesket
	date:-	1802
	period:-	19th century, early; 1800s
		photographs
		Low Hesket -- Hesket -- Cumbria / -- Ye Olde Village Pumpe? -- 9.3.2007
	Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008

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