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.
BELLE ISLE, or Curwen's Isle, an island in Windermere, Westmoreland; near the centre of the lake, opposite Bowness. It measures about 1½ mile in circuit, and upwards of 30 acres in area; is all disposed in landscape garden; and contains the mansion of Henry Curwen, Esq.,-a circular four-storey edifice, with hexastyle portico, built in 1776. A baronial fortalice once stood on the site of the mansion; belonged, in the time of Charles I., to the family of Phillipson; and was garrisoned and defended, at that time, for the Crown.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "an island" (ADL Feature Type: "islands") |
| Administrative units: | Westmorland AncC |
| Place names: | BELLE ISLE | BELLE ISLE OR CURWENS ISLE | CURWENS ISLE |
| Place: | Belle Isle |
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