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placename:- Winscales
parish Winscales parish, once in Cumberland
county:- Cumbria
building/s
coordinates:- NY0226
10Km square:- NY02

1Km square NY0226

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.
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Winscales

placename:- Winscales
county:- Westmoreland
date:- 1839
period:- 19th century, early; 1830s

old text:- Mackenzie 1776

Pages 23-24:-
... ...
Workington Bank ... On the W. end of this shoal, St. Bee's Head bears S. by W. 1/2 W. Workington Hall S.S.E. and in a line with Winsgil's (which is the north-most of three small clumps of wood that may be seen on the top of a rising ground, about three miles S. of Workington), and Mary-Port E. by S. ...

placename:- Winsgil's
sea mark
date:- 1776
period:- 18th century, late; 1770s

Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008

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