Old Cumbria Gazetteer

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	locality:-	Hollin Bank
	parish	Coniston parish, once in Lancashire
	county:-	Cumbria
		viewpoint; station
	coordinates:-	SD3298
	10Km square:-	SD39
	1Km square	SD3298
		station, Hollin Bank S -- Hollin Bank -- Coniston -- Cumbria / -- From the road side on High Hollin Bank:- -- SD324983 (S) -- 28.4.2006
	old map:-	Crosthwaite 1783-94 (Con)
		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.
		The Author's two Stations at Hollin Bank
		each marked by a square symbol
		... are near Hollin Bank, half a Mile to the N.E. of the Head of the Lake on the road from Hawkshead to Waterhead ...
	date:-	1783=1794
	period:-	18th century, late; 1780s; 1790s
	old map:-	Crosthwaite 1783-94 (Con)
		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.
		The Author's two Stations at Hollin Bank
		two square symbols:-
		... near Hollin Bank, half a mile to the N.E. of the Head of the Lake on the Road from Hawkshead to Waterhead
	other name:-	station, Coniston, Crosthwaite 1
	coordinates:-	SD32159830
	date:-	1788
	period:-	18th century, late; 1780s
	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 54:-
		...
		At Water-head, the road to the east leads to Ambleside, eight miles; to Hawkshead, three. Ascend a steep hill surronded (sic) with
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		Page 55:-
		wood, and have a back view of the lake. To the north is a most awful scene of mountains, in every variety of horrid shape. Amongst them sweeps to the north a deep winding chasm, darkened by overhanging rocks, that the eye cannot pierce, nor the imagination fathom; from which turn your face to the east, and you have a view of some part of Windermere-water. ...
	date:-	1778
	period:-	18th century, late; 1770s
	Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008

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