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Bampton Grange, Bampton
Bampton Grange
civil parish:-   Bampton (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   NY52161806 (etc) 
1Km square:-   NY5218
10Km square:-   NY51

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BJT76.jpg (taken 22.8.2005)  
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BQF24.jpg (taken 6.3.2009)  
evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 13 8) 
placename:-  Bampton Grange
source data:-   Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25 inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948.
evidence:-   old map:- Saxton 1579
placename:-  Banton
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmorlandiae et Cumberlandiae Comitatus ie Westmorland and Cumberland, scale about 5 miles to 1 inch, by Christopher Saxton, London, engraved by Augustinus Ryther, 1576, published 1579-1645.
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Church, symbol for a parish or village, with a parish church.  "Banton"
item:-  private collection : 2
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evidence:-   probably old map:- Mercator 1595 (edn?) 
placename:-  Banton
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmorlandia, Lancastria, Cestria etc, ie Westmorland, Lancashire, Cheshire etc, scale about 10.5 miles to 1 inch, by Gerard Mercator, Duisberg, Germany, 1595, edition 1613-16.
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"Banton"
circle 
item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.14.3
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evidence:-   old map:- Keer 1605
placename:-  Banton
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmorland and Cumberland, scale about 16 miles to 1 inch, probably by Pieter van den Keere, or Peter Keer, about 1605 edition perhaps 1676.
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"Banton"
dot, circle and tower; village 
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2007.38.110
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evidence:-   old map:- Speed 1611 (Wmd) 
placename:-  Banton
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, The Countie Westmorland and Kendale the Cheif Towne, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Speed, 1610, published by George Humble, Popes Head Alley, London, 1611-12.
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"Banton"
circle, building and tower 
item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.14.5
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evidence:-   old map:- Jansson 1646
placename:-  Banton
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Cumbria and Westmoria, ie Cumberland and Westmorland, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Jansson, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1646.
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"Banton"
Buildings and tower. 
item:-  JandMN : 88
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evidence:-   hearth tax returns:- Hearth Tax 1670
placename:-  Grainge
source data:-   Records, hearth tax returns, exchequer duplicates, Westmorland, 1670.
"Grainge"
evidence:-   probably old map:- Morden 1695 (Wmd) 
placename:-  Bamton Grange
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmorland, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by Robert Morden, published by Abel Swale, the Unicorn, St Paul's Churchyard, Awnsham, and John Churchill, the Black Swan, Paternoster Row, London, 1695.
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"Bamton Gr"
No symbol. 
item:-  JandMN : 24
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evidence:-   old map:- Bowen and Kitchin 1760
placename:-  Banton
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, A New Map of the Counties of Cumberland and Westmoreland Divided into their Respective Wards, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Emanuel Bowen and Thomas Kitchin et al, published by T Bowles, Robert Sayer, and John Bowles, London, 1760.
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"Banton / V"
circle, building and tower, vicarage, cross potent for a charity school 
item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.14.10
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evidence:-   old map:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd) 
placename:-  Grange
source data:-   Map, 4 sheets, The County of Westmoreland, scale 1 inch to 1 mile, surveyed 1768, and engraved and published by Thomas Jefferys, London, 1770.
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"Grange"
blocks, labelled in upright lowercase text; settlement; town? 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland
evidence:-   old map:- Cary 1789 (edn 1805) 
placename:-  Grange
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Westmoreland, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Cary, London, 1789; edition 1805.
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"Grange"
block/s, labelled in italic lowercase; house, or hamlet 
item:-  JandMN : 129
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evidence:-   old map:- Cooke 1802
placename:-  Brompton
source data:-   Map, The Lakes, Westmorland and Cumberland, scale about 8.5 miles to 1 inch, engravedby Neele and Son, published by Sherwood, Jones and Co, Paternoster Road, London, 1824.
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"Brompton"
blocks, italic lowercase text, village, hamlet, locality 
item:-  Hampshire Museums : FA2000.62.5
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evidence:-   old map:- Otley 1818
placename:-  Bampton
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, The District of the Lakes, Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Jonathan Otley, 1818, engraved by J and G Menzies, Edinburgh, Scotland, published by Jonathan Otley, Keswick, Cumberland, et al, 1833.
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"BAMPTON"
item:-  JandMN : 48.1
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evidence:-   descriptive text:- Otley 1823 (5th edn 1834) 
source data:-   Guide book, A Concise Description of the English Lakes, the mountains in their vicinity, and the roads by which they may be visited, with remarks on the mineralogy and geology of the district, by Jonathan Otley, published by the author, Keswick, Cumberland now Cumbria, by J Richardson, London, and by Arthur Foster, Kirkby Lonsdale, Cumbria, 1823; published 1823-49, latterly as the Descriptive Guide to the English Lakes.
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Page 28:-  "..."
"There is a public house at Mardale Green, ... and two at Bampton Grange, a distance of two miles from its [Hawes Water's] foot."
"..."
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Page 116:-  "... return to the Grange for refreshment. At this place there are two public-houses; but not being often visited by strangers, they are not well fitted up for their entertainment. ..."
evidence:-   probably fiction:- Trollope 1864
placename:-  Bampton
placename:-  Baampton
source data:-   image TROLLOP1, button  goto source
chapter 57 Showing how the wild beast got himself back from the mountains  "We will ... tell how he [George] walked across the mountains, in the rain, to Bampton,a little village at the foot of Haweswater. ..."
"... The rain soon came on and found him exposed on the hill-side. He thought little about it, but buttoned his coat, as I have said before, and strode on. It was a storm of rain, so that he was forced to hold his head to one side, as it hit him from the north. But with his hand on his hat, and his head bent against the wind, he went on till he had reached the valley at the foot, and found that the track by which he had been led thither had become a road. ..."
"... As he [George] got near the village he overtook a shepherd boy coming down from the hills, and learned his whereabouts from him. 'Baampton,' said the boy, with an accent that was almost Scotch, when he was asked the name of the place. When Vavasor further asked whether a gig was kept there, the boy simply stared at him, not knowing a gig by that name. At last, however, he was made to understand the nature of his companion's want, and expressed his belief that 'John Applethwaite, up at the Craigs yon, had got a mickle cart.' But the Craigs was a farm-house, which now came in view about a mile off, up across valley: and Vavasor, hoping that he might still find a speedier conveyance than John Applethwaite's mickle cart, went on to the public-house in the village. But, in truth, neither there, nor yet from John Applethwaite, to whom at last an application was sent, could he get any vehicle; and between six and seven he started off again, through the rain, to make his weary way on foot to Shap. ..."

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BWH38.jpg (taken 27.4.2012)  
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CCY55.jpg (taken 1.5.2015)  
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BNK38.jpg  A stile, near the bridge.
(taken 23.3.2007)  
hearsay:-  
 The vicarage, opposite St Patrick's Church, houses the Tinklar Library, with many texts in Latin. There is a local saying:-
"They drove the plough in Latin in Bampton."
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