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Page 1025:-
two Towns, viz. the Upper alias Church Brough,
where the Church stands, with a Castle and a small Fort called
Caesar's Tower, the former of which being demolished, was
rebuilt not very many Years ago by a Countess of Pembroke.
Near the Bridge a Spaw-well was lately discovered. The other Part
is called Lower Brough from its Situation, and Market
Brough from its Market, which is pretty considerable, and is
kept on Thursday.
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Milnthorpe
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Milthorp, at the Mouth of the Can, is the only
Sea-Port Town in the County, Commodities being brought hither in
small Vessels from Grange in Lancashire.
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Shap
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Shap, once called Chepe and Hepe, is a
Market-Town five Miles from the Road that leads from
Penrith to Brough, and belongs to the Family of
Wharton. It has a Moot-house, the upper Part of which is a
Room for the publick Business.
The ancient Places of most Note in this County are,
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Amboglana
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Amboglana, which if we regard the Analogy of Names, can be
placed no where more conveniently than at Ambleside upon
Winander Mere, and the rather, because it shews the Ruins
of an old City, and other Marks of Aniquity, and several Medals
of Gold. Silver, and Copper, have been found here, some of which
were in that Collection which Mr. Brathwate of
Ambleside gave in 1674 to the University Library at
Oxford.
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Verterae
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Verterae must be Brough under Stanemore for
several Reasons, viz. the Name which imports Antiquity,
its Situation upon a Roman Highway, and the exact
Agreement of the Distances from Levatrae and
Brovonacum.
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Gallatum
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Gallatum is supposed to be Whelp Castle, near
Kirkby Thore, where are the Ruins of an old Town, and very
considerable Remains of Antiquity.
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Setantiorum
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Setantiorum Lacus is supposed to be Winander Mere.
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Maiden Way
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At Kirkby-Thore begins the old Causey called the Maiden
Way, which runs twenty Miles from hence to Caer Vorran
near the Picts Wall.
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Arthur's Round Table
Mayburgh
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That which the Country People call King Arthur's Round
Table is a little to the South of the Conflux of the
Lowther and Eimot. There's a Trench on the Inside
of it, by which some think it was a Place for Justs and
Tournaments; but others that it was only a Cockpit, or a Ring to
wrestle in. Near it is a kind of Fortifica-
tion,
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gazetteer links
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-- "Ambleside" -- Ambleside
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-- "King Arthur's Round Table" -- Arthur's Round Table
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-- Brough Castle
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-- "Brough under Stanemore" -- Brough
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-- "Upper Brough" -- Church Brough
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-- "Whelp Castle" -- Kirkby Thore
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-- "Maiden Way" -- Maiden Way
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-- "Mayburgh" -- Mayburgh
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-- "Milthorp" -- Milnthorpe
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-- "Caer Vorran" -- Camboglanna
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-- "Caesar's Tower" -- Verteris
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-- "Shap" -- Shap
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-- "Upper Brough" -- (spa, Church Brough)
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-- "Winander Mere" -- Windermere
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