AW | Researches of Dr. Angus L. Winchester. |
B | T. Bulmer and Co. : History, Topography and Directory of West Cumberland (1883). (Used Askew frequently.) |
Bew | The late Mr. James Bewley of Station Street, Cockermouth. |
C | John F. Curwen: ‘Cockermouth Castle’, NS 11. |
CA | Cockermouth Advertiser. |
CCM | Cousin Charley’s Magazine, 1899-1901. |
CCT | John F. Curwen: ‘Castles and Towers of Cumberland and Westmorland’, NS 13. |
CF | Clare Fell: Early Settlement in the Lake Counties (Dalesman, 1972). |
CP | Cumberland Pacquet. |
CR | Records in Cockermouth Castle and the County Records Office, Carlisle. |
CW | ‘To Lieutenant-Gen. Henry Wyndham, Colonel of the 11th. Prince Albert’s Own Hussars, these Sketches of Cockermouth Castle in the County ofCumberland are respectively Dedicated by his nephew, Charles Wyndham.’ Notes accompanying the sketches. |
DSM | Michael Davies-Shiel and J.D. Marshall: Industrial Archaeology in the Lake Counties (David and Charles, 1969 edition). |
EHS | E.H. Shackleton: Lakeland Geology (Dalesman). |
ERD | E.R. Denwood: ‘A Walk Around Old-time Cockermouth’ in the Cockermouth and District Advertiser, 1946. |
GEM | G.E. Mingay: Rural Life in Victorian England (Book Club Associates, 1976). |
GMT | G.M. Trevelyan: Illustrated English Social History 1,2,3,4 (Penguin, 1964 edition). |
GPC | Minutes of the General Purposes Committee of Cockermouth Urban District Council. |
JA | John Askew: A Guide to the Interesting Places in and around Cockermouth with an account of its Remarkable Men and Local Traditions (1866). Edited and revised by Thomas Thompson, 1872. (Published by Isaac Evening, 22 Station Street.) |
JAD | J. Adair: A Quaker Lover (S.W Partridge and Co., before 1846). |
JB | John Bolton: Wordsworth’s Birthplace, being the parochial history and local government of the ancient borough of Cockermouth John Fletcher, ‘Free Press’ Office, Cockermouth, 1912). |
JDM | J.D. Marshall: Old Lakeland (David and Charles, 1971). |
JGB | J. Gorton Brooker: A collection of newspaper cuttings, mostly from Cumberland News and West Cumberland Times, |
JJB | J.J. Bagley: Historical Interpretation 1,2 (Penguin, 1965). |
JW | Johnston and Wright: Cockermouth – a Report on the Central Area. Prepared for the UDC, 1974. |
JWM | Mr. J.W Mounsey of Main Street, Cockermouth. |
LAW | L.A. Williams: Road Transport in Cumbria in the Nineteenth Century (Alien and Unwin, 1975). |
LL | Daniel Lysons and Samuel Lysons: Magna Britannia; being a concise topographical account of the several counties of Great Britain (Cadell and Davies, 1816). |
M | Mate’s illustrated Guide to Cockermouth, probably 1905. |
McA | Mr. Quinten McAdam of Distington. |
MDS | M. Davies-Shiel: Lectures on Cockermouth, 1971-2. |
MR | R. Millward and A. Robinson: The Lake District (Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1970). |
MW | Mannix and Whelan: History, Gazetteer and Directory of Cumberland (1847). |
NS | Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, New Series – 1901 to date, the figure denoting the year of publication. |
OS | Transactions of the CWAAS, Old Series. Volumes 1 to 16 cover the years 1875 to 1900. |
P | H.L. Peacock: A History of Modem Britain (Heinemann, 1968). |
Pev | N. Pevsner: Cumber land and Westmorland in the Buildings of England series (Penguin, 1967). |
PW | Parson and White: Directory of Cumberland, Westmorland, Furness and Cartmel (1829). |
NB | J. Nicholson and R. Bum: History and Antiquities of West Cumberland, vol. 11(1777). |
RB | Robin Birley: Civilians on the Roman Frontier (F. Graham, 1973). |
RE | Robert Emlin: A History of Cumbria (Dalesman, 1973). |
RGC | R.G. Collingwood: ‘Report on the Excavations at Papcastle 1912’, NSI2. |
RSF | R.S. Ferguson: A History of Cumberland (1890). |
S | Steinberg and Evans: Steinberg’s Dictionary 0 British History (Arnold). |
UBD | The Universal British Directory (1790). |
UDC | Minutes of Cockermouth Urban District Council. |
WB | M. Davies-Shiel: Wool is my Bread or the Early Woollen Industry in Kendal from c.975-1575 AD (1975). |
WCT | West Cumberland Times, later the West Cumberland Times and Star. |
Wes | Official Handbook of the Grand Bazaar, representing Old Cockermouth, held in the Drill Hall, 27, 28, 29 March 1895. Wesleyan Methodist Church. |
WGC | WG. Collingwood: Lake District History (Titus Wilson, 1925). |
WJ | William Jackson: ‘Cockermouth Castle’, OS4. |
WR | William Rollinson: A History of Man in the Lake District (Dent, 1967). |
