Old Cumbria Gazetteer

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	placename:-	St Bees Head
	parish	St Bees parish, once in Cumberland
	county:-	Cumbria
		headland
	coordinates:-	NX940143
	10Km square:-	NX91
	1Km square	NX9414
		St Bees Head -- St Bees -- Cumbria / -- Sea and rocks. -- 29.8.2008
		St Bees Head -- St Bees -- Cumbria / -- Sea and rocks; bedding and jointing. -- 29.8.2008
	text:-	Mason 1907 (edn 1930)
		Page 25:-
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		A little south of Whitehaven is the red headland of St. Bees, the finest on the coast, where the cliffs are washed by the stormy sea, which has strewn the beach with huge rock boulders. ...
	date:-	1907
	period:-	1900s
	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.
		St. Bees Head
		headland
	placename:-	St Bees Head
	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.
		St. Bees Head
		Headland.
	placename:-	St Bees Head
	county:-	Cumberland
	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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		headland
	old text:-	Camden 1789
		Britannia, or A Chorographical Description of the Flourishing Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, by William Camden, 1586, translated from the 1607 Latin edition by Richard Gough, published London, 1789.
		Page 169:-
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		The shore now advancing gradually to the west forms a little point, commonly called St. Bees for St. Bega's. This Bega was a devout and holy virgin of Ireland, who passed her life in solitude here, and to whose piety many miracles are ascribed, as taming a wild bull, and by her prayers covering with a great depth of snow the vallies and hill tops in the middle of summer. ...
	person:-	: St Bega
	date:-	1789
	period:-	18th century, late; 1780s
	old text:-	Camden 1789 (Gough Additions)
		Britannia, or A Chorographical Description of the Flourishing Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, by William Camden, 1586, translated from the 1607 Latin edition by Richard Gough, published London, 1789.
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		The great cliff called Bamhead or Bees head abounds with plenty of sea fowl.
	placename:-	Bamhead
	other name:-	Bees Head
	date:-	1789
	period:-	18th century, late; 1780s
	old text:-	Mackenzie 1776
		Page 18:-
		... ...
		A Description of the Tides, Rocks, Shoals, Channels, Anchoring-places, and Harbours, between PIEL-OF-FOUDRAY and St BEE's HEAD.
		CHART XI.
		TIDES / Tides between PIEL-OF-FOUDRAY and St. BEE's HEAD.
		Time of High-water. / Between Piel-of-Foudray, and St. Bee's Head in Cumberland, it is high-water on the shore at eleven, on full and change days.
		Rise of the Tides. / Spring-tide rises twenty feet perpendicular; neap-tide six or seven.
		...
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		... ...
		... There is a light kept on St. Bee's Head to shew vessels into Solway Firth at night: ...
	placename:-	St Bee's Head
	date:-	1776
	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.
		St. Bees Head
		headland
	placename:-	St Bees Head
	date:-	1760
	period:-	18th century, late; 1760s
	descriptive text:-	Defoe 1724-26
		Travel book, Tour through England and Wales, by Daniel Defoe, published in parts, London, 1724-26.
		The cape or head land of St. Bees, still preserves its name; as for the lady, like that of St. Tabbs beyond Berwick, the story is become fabulous, viz. about her procuring, by her prayers, a deep snow on Midsummer Day, her taming a wild bull that did great damage in the country; these, and the like tales, I leave where I found them, (viz.) among the rubbish of the old women and the Romish priests.
	person:-	: St Bees
	date:-	1724=1726
	period:-	18th century, early; 1720s
	old map:-	Morden 1695 (Cmd)
		Maps, Westmorland, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, and Cumberland, scale about 3 miles to 1 inch, by Robert Morden, 1695.
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		St. Bees Head
		Headland.
	placename:-	St Bees Head
	county:-	Cumberland
	date:-	1695
	period:-	17th century, late; 1690s
	old map:-	Jansson 1646
		Map, Cumbria et Westmoria, or Cumberland and Westmorland, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Jansson, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1646; published 1646-1724.
		S. Bees head
		Labelling the headland.
	placename:-	St Bees Head
	county:-	Cumberland
	date:-	1646
	period:-	17th century, early; 1640s
	old map:-	Speed 1611 (Cmd)
		Maps, The Countie Westmorland and Kendale the Cheif Towne, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, and Cumberland and the Ancient Citie Carlile, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by John Speed, London, 1611; published 1611-1770.
		St. Bees head
		headland
	placename:-	St Bees Head
	date:-	1611
	period:-	17th century, early; 1610s
	old map:-	Saxton 1576
		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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		Sct: bees head
		Headland.
	placename:-	St Bees Head
	county:-	Cumberlandia
		headland
	date:-	1576
	period:-	16th century, late; 1570s
	old print:-	Robertson 1911
		Wordsworthshire, by Eric Robertson, Windermere, Westmorland, illustrated by Arthur Tucker, published by Chatto and Windus, London, 1911.
		Print, lithograph? Whitehaven Pier and St Bees Head, from Moresby, from a watercolour by Arthur Tucker, published by Chatto and Windus, London, 1911.
		Tipped in opposite p.36 of Wordsworthshire by Eric Robertson.
		printed at bottom:-
		WHITEHAVEN PIER AND ST. BEE'S HEAD, FROM MORESBY
		signed at painting lower left:-
		Arthur Tucker
	placename:-	St Bees Head
	date:-	1911
	period:-	1910s
	old drawing:-	Smith 1746 B
		Survey of the Coast of Cumberland, by George Smith, 1746
		Drawing, pencil and ink, A View of Bees Head, in a Survey of the Coast of Cumberland, by George Smith, 1746.
		ms at bottom:-
		A View of Bees-head, from the rocks above White-haven.
	placename:-	Bees Head
	date:-	1746
	period:-	18th century, early
	old print:-
		Print, uncoloured engraving, Whitehaven, Cumberland, drawn by W H Bartlett, engraved by J C Redaway, published 1840s.
		Probably from Findens Views of the Ports, Harbours, Coast Scenery, and Watering Places of Great Britain, as continued by W H Bartlett.
		printed at bottom left, right, centre:-
		W. H. Bartlett. / J. C. Redaway. / WHITEHAVEN, / (with St. Bees-head.)
	placename:-	St Bees Head
	person:-	shepherd
	date:-	1840=1849
	period:-	19th century, early
	old map:-	Hydrographic Office 1850s-90s
		Charts, Irish Sea, Solway Firth, etc, published by the Hydrographic Office, 1850-58.
		coast view on Admiralty chart
		St. Bees Head from the Southward (Rec Sand-stone)
	placename:-	St Bees Head
	date:-	1858
	period:-	19th century, late; 1850s
		photographs
		St Bees Head -- St Bees -- Cumbria / -- Cormorant and young, Phalacrocorax carbo. -- 29.8.2008
		photographs
		A few of the flowers seen on a walk round the headland, 29 August 2008; in the mist.
		St Bees Head -- St Bees -- Cumbria / -- Orpine, Sedum telephium. -- 29.8.2008
		St Bees Head -- St Bees -- Cumbria / -- Creeping thistle, Cirsium arvense. -- 29.8.2008
		St Bees Head -- St Bees -- Cumbria / -- Lady's bedstraw, Galium verum. -- 29.8.2008
		St Bees Head -- St Bees -- Cumbria / -- Sheep's bit, Jasione montana. -- 29.8.2008
		St Bees Head -- St Bees -- Cumbria / -- Devil's bit scabious, Succisa pratensis. -- 29.8.2008
		St Bees Head -- St Bees -- Cumbria / -- Blood red geranium, Geranium sanguineum. -- 29.8.2008
	hearsay	The beacons of west Cumberland were on: Black Combe, Boothill, Moota Hill, Muncaster Fell, Skiddaw, St Bees Head, and Workington Hill. (Questionable information.)
	Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008

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