Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Storrs

Storrs, hamlet, Undermilbeck township, Windermere par., Westmorland, on Windermere lake, 2 miles SW. of Bowness; Storrs Hall, seat, is famous as the meeting-place, in 1825, of Scott, Wilson, Canning, Southey, Wordsworth, and Lockhart; an observatory, called Storrs Temple, is in vicinity.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "hamlet"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Windermere CP       Westmorland AncC
Place: Storrs

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