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Cumbrian Place Names by Jeremy Godwin
Download In Transactions Series 3 Vol 20 an article was published "Some Lake District Place Names" by Jeremy Godwin. Using an etymological approach, the article elicits meanings for various Lakeland place names which have hitherto been elusive, overlooked or erroneously derived. Only some of the place names were included in the article and it was supplemented with a paper of more place names which was made available via the website additional resources section. The author has now produced a second paper with more place names, in order to make the articles more useable they have been combined into this single document and an alphabetical index of the place names has been created. Uploaded 2025-06-10 09:18:59Roman Glass from the fort of Old Penrith by Silvia Pillon
DownloadThis paper comments on the
glass found during an excavation, in an area to the south of the Roman fort at
Old Penrith undertaken in 1977-78. All the glass is unstratified and mostly
unpublished. The investigated area encompassed pre-Hadrianic levels, but the
main area of excavation lay within the civil settlement (vicus) outside the
fort. The glass can therefore date to any time from the late first century to
the late fourth century. The report takes the form of an account of the
recovery of the glass, a catalogue of the diagnostic items with the aim of
gaining a comprehensive understanding of their original form, colour and use.
Transactions
Members have access to all Transactions and non members have access to those over 5 years old in the Transactions section of this website. Click Here Uploaded 2021-04-02 16:32:16
The Dark Path to Knowledge : The Autobiography of John Gough of Kendal (1757-1825), 'Blind Philosopher' and Polymath
DownloadSupplemental Material for the publication The Dark Path to Knowledge : The Autobiography of John Gough of Kendal (1757-1825), 'Blind Philosopher' and Polymath. Edited by Michael Pearson and Ian D. Hodkinson
Uploaded 2021-11-13 15:13:26Studio photographers in Cumbria during the reigns of Queen Victoria and King Edward VII by Ian Moonie
DownloadA listing of the details of itinerant photographers in Cumberland
This supplements the article by Ian in the 2017 issue of Transactions.
Uploaded 2021-04-02 16:31:50Barony of Greystock Enclosure Award of 1775
Some time ago a past parish clerk of Dacre took on the task of transcribing the Great and Little Stainton, Newbiggin and Blencow areas of the Barony of Greystock Enclosure Award of 1775.
This was the subject of an article in the 1995 edition of Transactions by ROBERT S. DILLEY M.A., M.LITT., PH.D and to quote from it :
"A few awards — especially more recent copies — lack maps and are therefore hard to locate on the ground. Some have suffered from fading, rubbing or other damage and are in places difficult to read. The Award for Stainton, Newbiggin and Blencow is complete (it has both a narrative description of allotments and separate tables); it has good maps and has suffered little damage. Yet on closer inspection it defies rational interpretation. Nothing seems to fit. It is as if the Enclosure Commissioners ('Thomas James of Penrith in the County of Cumberland Gentleman Isaac Hobson of Grassgarth in the Parish of Sebergham in the said County Gentleman and Joseph Hodgson of Penrith aforesaid Ironmonger') deliberately set about creating a puzzle for future generations."
Although this article contains a lot of useful information, it does not have a transcript of the original list of individual allotments. This original transcript was recently made available to the society by the current Chair of Dacre Parish Council, Dr Alan Rich, a long standing member of CWAAS.
It was possible to digitise and character recognise the document and this is now available on this site for download. Click Here
The original maps, tracings of the maps, index and schedule of this document have been copied thanks to a grant from the Society, Click Here to download the file, please note this is a large 30MB file which may take some time to download.
This transcript should of course be read in conjunction with the original article in Transactions which can be downloaded From Here
Uploaded 2021-03-30 13:37:04