Place:


Storrs  Westmorland

 

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Storrs like this:

STORRS, a hamlet in Undermilbeck township, Westmoreland; on Windermere lake, 2 miles SSW of Bowness. S. Hall was built by Sir J. Legard, Bart.; passed to the Boltous and the Staniforths; and was the place in 1825 of a famous meeting of Professor Wilson, Sir Walter Scott, Cauning, Southey, Wordsworth, and Lockhart.

Additional information about this locality is available for Bowness on Windermere

Storrs through time

Storrs is now part of South Lakeland district. Click here for graphs and data of how South Lakeland has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Storrs itself, go to Units and Statistics.

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Storrs, in South Lakeland and Westmorland | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/24632

Date accessed: 28th March 2024


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