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Blencow Station, Dacre
Blencow Station
site name:-   Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith Railway
locality:-   Blencow
civil parish:-   Dacre (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   railway station
coordinates:-   NY46383040
1Km square:-   NY4630
10Km square:-   NY43
SummaryText:-   Opened 1865; closed 19752; reopened 1956; closed 1972.

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 58 2) 
placename:-  Blencow Station
item:-  railway signalweighing machine
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.
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"Blencow Station / Weighing Machine / Signal Post / S.P."

evidence:-   old map:- Postlethwaite 1877 (3rd edn 1913) 
placename:-  Blencow
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Map of the Lake District Mining Field, Westmorland, Cumberland, Lancashire, scale about 5 miles to 1 inch, by John Postlethwaite, published by W H Moss and Sons, 13 Lowther Street, Whitehaven, Cumberland, 1877 edn 1913.
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"BLENCOW"
station on railway 
item:-  JandMN : 162.2
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