Old Cumbria Gazetteer

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	placename:-	Water Head Pier
	site name:-	Coniston Water
	locality:-	Water Head
	parish	Coniston parish, once in Lancashire
	county:-	Cumbria
		boat house; landing stage; slipway
	coordinates:-	SD31009718
	10Km square:-	SD39
	1Km square	SD3197
		Water Head Pier -- Coniston Water -- Water Head -- Coniston -- Cumbria / -- 28.4.2006
	old map:-	Crosthwaite 1783-94 (Con) -- presumably relevant
		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.
		Slate Key
		?jetty marked on lake
	date:-	1783=1794
	period:-	18th century, late; 1780s; 1790s
	descriptive text:-	West 1778 (11th edn 1821) -- perhaps relevant
		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 53:-
		... The eastern shore is not less bold and embayed [1].
		[1] The slate brought down from the mountains is laid up here, till put on board boats that transport it to Water-foot.
	date:-	1778
	period:-	18th century, late; 1770s
	Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008

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