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