Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Waterhead

Waterhead, place with hotel, Hawkshead par., N. Lancashire, at head of Coniston Water, ½ mile NE. of Coniston, and 2 miles SW. of Hawkshead; Waterhead House, seat, is in vicinity.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

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Feature Description: "place"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Lancashire AncC
Place: Waterhead

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