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placename:- Wythop Woods
locality:- Wythop
parish Wythop parish, once in Cumberland
county:- Cumbria
wood
coordinates:- NY209290
10Km square:- NY22

1Km square NY2029

old map:- Clarke 1787 map (Bassenthwaite Lake)

Map series, lakes and roads to the Lakes, by James Clarke, engraved by S J Neele, 352 Strand, London, included in A Survey of the Lakes of Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire, published by James Clarke, Penrith, and in London etc, from 1787 to 1793.
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wood
date:- 1787
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 121:-
... The whole western boundary [of Bassenthwaite Lake] is the noble range of wooded hills called Wythop-brows. ...
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date:- 1778
period:- 18th century, late; 1770s

Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008

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