A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
Hawkshead, small town and par., N. Lancashire, at head of Esthwaite, 5 miles SW. of Ambleside, 22,330 ac. (640 water), pop. 2204; P.O., T.O.; is an ancient and irregularly built town, possessing a grammar school founded by Archbishop Sandys, at which Wordsworth the poet was educated; the church, founded at the time of the Conquest, retains much of its original masonry; in vicinity of town is Hawkshead Hall, where the abbots of Furness held their manor courts.
(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))
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| Feature Description: | "small town and parish" (ADL Feature Type: "cities") |
| Administrative units: | Hawkshead CP/Ch/AP Hawkshead CP Lancashire AncC |
| Place: | Hawkshead |
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