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Bunkers Hill, Dacre
Bunkers Hill
Bunkers Hill Farm
civil parish:-   Dacre (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
locality type:-   folly
coordinates:-   NY45843087
1Km square:-   NY4530
10Km square:-   NY43


photograph
BQG01.jpg (taken 14.3.2009)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 58 2) 
placename:-  Bunkers Hill
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:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Bunkers Hill
item:-  date stone (1775)
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"BUNKERS HILL AND BARNS/BYRES ADJOINING / / / DACRE / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 73779 / NY4584430876"

hearsay:-  
The name is in memory the Battle of Bunkers Hill, in the United States, in which a member of the Howard Family fought.

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