Old Cumbria Gazetteer - Burgh by Sands

Burgh by Sands

Bruff

locality:-

Hadrian's Wall

civil parish:-

Burgh by Sands (formerly Cumberland)

county:-

Cumbria

locality type:-

locality

locality type:-

buildings

coordinates:-

NY32755914 (etc)

1Km square:-

NY3259

10Km square:-

NY35

evidence:-

old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 15 12)
placename:- Burgh by Sands

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:- Gough 1350s-60s
placename:- Burgh Juxta Sablones

source data:-

Map, colour photozincograph copy, reduced size facsimile, Gough Map of Britain, scale about 28.5 miles to 1 inch, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, 1875.

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item:- JandMN : 33
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evidence:-

old map:- Gough 1350s-60s
placename:- Burgh Juxta Sablones

source data:-

Map, lithograph facsimile, Gough Map of Britain, 20 miles to 1 inch? published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, 1935.

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item:- JandMN : 34
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evidence:-

old map:- Lloyd 1573
placename:- Burg

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Map, hand coloured copper plate engraving, Angliae Regni, Kingdom of England, with Wales, scale about 24 miles to 1 inch, authored by Humphrey Lloyd, Denbigh, Clwyd, drawn and engraved by Abraham Ortelius, Netherlands, 1573.

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"Burg"
item:- Hampshire Museums : FA1998.69
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evidence:-

old map:- Saxton 1579
placename:- Burgh

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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. "Burgh"
item:- private collection : 2
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evidence:-

old map:- Mercator 1595 (edn?)
placename:- Burg

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Map, hand coloured engraving, Northumbria, Cumberlandia, et Dunelmensis Episcopatus, ie Northumberland, Cumberland and Durham etc, scale about 6.5 miles to 1 inch, by Gerard Mercator, Duisberg, Germany, about 1595.

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"Burg"
circle
item:- JandMN : 169
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evidence:-

old map:- Speed 1611 (Cmd)
placename:- Burgh Kirk

source data:-

Map, hand coloured engraving, Cumberland and the Ancient Citie Carlile Described, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by John Speed, 1610, published by J Sudbury and George Humble, Popes Head Alley, London, 1611-12.

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"Burgh Kirk"
circle, buildings, tower
item:- private collection : 16
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evidence:-

old map:- Jansson 1646
placename:- Burgh Kirk

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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"Burgh kirk"
Buildings and tower.
item:- JandMN : 88
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evidence:-

old map:- Morden 1695 (Cmd)
placename:- Burgh upon Sand

source data:-

Map, uncoloured engraving, Cumberland, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Robert Morden, 1695, published by Abel Swale, the Unicorn, St Paul's Churchyard, Awnsham, and John Churchill, the Black Swan, Paternoster Row, London, 1695-1715.

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"Burgh Upon Sand"
Circle, building and tower; there is also a deleted label.
item:- JandMN : 90
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evidence:-

old map, descriptive text:- Bowen 1720 (plate 162)
placename:- Burgh upon Sands
placename:- Castra Exploratum

source data:-

Road book, Britannia Depicta Or Ogilby Improv'd, including road strip maps with sections in Westmorland and Cumberland, scale about 2 miles to 1 inch, derived from maps by Ogilby, 1675, also a county map of Westmorland, scale about 8 miles to 1 inch, and of Cumberland, scale about 16.5 miles to 1 inch, each with text, by John Owen, published by Emanuel Bowen, London, 1720; published 1720-64.
"... Burgh upon Sands suppos'd to be the same with old Castra Exploratum, memorable on the account of ye renowned K: Ed. 1st. who seduced the Welsh, and marching with his Army against the Scotch dyed here in his Camp 7. Julÿa.d.1307."

evidence:-

old map:- Badeslade 1742
placename:- Burgh up Sand

source data:-

Map, uncoloured engraving, A Map of Cumberland North from London, scale about 11 miles to 1 inch, with descriptive text, by Thomas Badeslade, London, engraved and published by William Henry Toms, Union Court, Holborn, London, 1742.

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"Burgh up Sand"
circle, italic lowercase text; village, hamlet or locality
item:- JandMN : 115
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evidence:-

descriptive text:- Simpson 1746
placename:- Burgh upon Sands

source data:-

Atlas, three volumes of maps and descriptive text published as 'The Agreeable Historian, or the Compleat English Traveller ...', by Samuel Simpson, 1746.

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"... The Romans had also another Station near this Place [Drumburgh Castle], which, by changing of the Name, is, at present called"
"Burgh upon Sands, a large Barony, taking in all the neighbouring Lands and Town: It was first bestowed by Ranulph de Meschines, Lord of Cumberland, upon Robert de Estrivers, or Trivers, whom he made also chief Forester in his Forest of Englewood. From him, by"

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"Marriage it came to Sir Hugh Morvil, whose Family enjoy'd it for some Time, and were called the Morvils of Burgh super sabulones: A Knight of this Family, named Hugh Morvil, was one of the four that kill'd Thomas Beckett, Archbishop of Canterbury; for which, being afterwards very penitent, he gave the Rectory of this Town to the Abbey of Holm Cultram, which the Bishops of Carlisle appropriated to the Monks."
"The Sword with which he kill'd the Archbishop was kept long at Issal, and now remains in the Family of the Arundels. ..."

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"The Inhabitants say, that under this Burgh in the very AEstuary, there was first a Sea Fight between the Scots and English; and when the Tide was out, a second Fight began between the Horse of both Sides, as strange as that which Pliny relates in Caramania, and makes a great Wonder of it: Into this AEstuary the Huna, or River Eden, having pass'd thro' Part of Westmoreland, and quite cross the N.E. Parts of the County, falls with a vast Body of Waters, which in the Year 1216, seemed to be the greatest Enemy that the Scots had, for when they had plunder'd the English without Resistance, and were returning with Loads of Spoil, they came upon them with a full Torrent, and quickly swallow'd up the whole plundering Crew."

evidence:-

old text:- Gents Mag
placename:- Burgh on the Sands
item:- roman altar

source data:-

Magazine, The Gentleman's Magazine or Monthly Intelligencer or Historical Chronicle, published by Edward Cave under the pseudonym Sylvanus Urban, and by other publishers, London, monthly from 1731 to 1922.

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Gentleman's Magazine 1749 p.367

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"An INSCRIPTION found on a small portable ALTAR at Burgh on the Sands, in Cumberland. in the house of one John Hodgson. - A reading of it is desired."

evidence:-

old map:- Bowen and Kitchin 1760
placename:- Burgh upon Sands

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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"Burgh upon Sands / V"
circle, building and tower, vicarage
item:- Armitt Library : 2008.14.10
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evidence:-

old map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd)
placename:- Burgh on the Sands

source data:-

Map, hand coloured engraving, 3x2 sheets, The County of Cumberland, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, by Thomas Donald, engraved and published by Joseph Hodskinson, 29 Arundel Street, Strand, London, 1774.

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"Burgh on the Sands"
blocks, and usually a church, labelled in upright lowercase; a village
item:- Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library

evidence:-

old text:- Camden 1789 (Gough Additions)
placename:-  Burgh on Sands
placename:-  Burgh yn the Sand
item:-  roman altar; altar, roman; inscription, roman; roman inscription

source data:-

Book, Britannia, or A Chorographical Description of the Flourishing Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, by William Camden, 1586, translated from the 1607 Latin edition by Richard Gough, published London, 1789.

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Page 187:- "..."
"Burgh on Sands ... An altar inscribed,"
"DEO
BELA
TVCA"
"was dug up in the vicar's garden; the 5th to that deity in England. Another inscription published in Gent. Mag. Aug. 1749, p.367, runs thus:"
"ALA TVN P. PO.
S: CENSORVVS
SALVTE SVA
ES [ET] POS."
"On the spot where Edward I died, ..."
"..."
""Burgh yn the sand standeth a mile off from the hither bank of Edon. It is a village by the which remain the ruins of a great place, now clene desolated, where king Edward the first died. Burgh"

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Page 188:- ""stondith from Bolnes three miles and from Cair Luel four or five, and longid sometime to the Morvilles. Here was 15 years ago the lord Maxwell sore woundid, many slain and drowned in Edon." This relates to the battle of Sollom moss 1524."
"Burgh belonged to the Lucys and Multons, and passed by the heiress of the latter to the Dacres of Dacre castle, to the coheiress of a younger branch of whom this barony was allotted, and her descendant in the 4th generation Henry Howard, duke of Norfolk, sold it about 1689 to sir John Lowther, bart. ancestor of the present possessor."

evidence:-

road book:- Cary 1798 (2nd edn 1802)
placename:- Burgh

source data:-

Road book, itineraries, Cary's New Itinerary, by John Cary, 181 Strand, London, 2nd edn 1802.

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page 555-556 "Burgh"
item:- JandMN : 228.2
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evidence:-

old map:- Laurie and Whittle 1806
placename:- Burgh on the Sands

source data:-

Road map, Completion of the Roads to the Lakes, scale about 10 miles to 1 inch, by Nathaniel Coltman? 1806, published by Robert H Laurie, 53 Fleet Street, London, 1834.

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"Burgh on the Sands 311¼"
village or other place; distance from London
item:- private collection : 18.18
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evidence:-

old map:- Cooper 1808
placename:- Burgh

source data:-

Map, uncoloured engraving, Cumberland, scale about 10.5 miles to 1 inch, drawn and engraved by Cooper, published by R Phillips, Bridge Street, Blackfriars, London, 1808.

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"Burgh"
circle; village or hamlet
item:- JandMN : 86
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evidence:-

old text:- Gents Mag

source data:-

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Gentleman's Magazine 1816 part 2 p.600
From the Compendium of County History:- "1306, July 7, at Burgh-upon-Sands, EDWARD I. died."

evidence:-

old text:- Gents Mag 1819
item:- battle

source data:-

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Gentleman's Magazine 1819 part 1 p.404
From the Compendium of County History:- "1016. Near Burgh-upon-Sands, Uchtred Earl of Northumberland and the Danes defeated by Malcolm King of Scotland."

evidence:-

old text:- Gents Mag 1819

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Gentleman's Magazine 1819 part 1 p.405 "1307. ... on June 28, Edward, very weak and ill, left the city [Carlisle] on his March to Scotland; halted that night at Caldecote; reached Burgh-upon-Sands July 5, and closed his glorious reign there July 7. An obelisk commemorating this event was erected on Burgh Marsh by Henry Duke of Norfolk in 1685, and repaired by William Viscount Lowther in 1803. ..."

evidence:-

old map:- Ford 1839 map
placename:- Burgh on the Sands

source data:-

Map, uncoloured engraving, Map of the Lake District of Cumberland, Westmoreland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by Charles Thurnam, Carlisle, and by R Groombridge, 5 Paternoster Row, London, 3rd edn 1843.

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"Burgh on the Sands"
item:- JandMN : 100.1
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evidence:-

old map:- Garnett 1850s-60s H
placename:- Burgh

source data:-

Map of the English Lakes, in Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, 1850s-60s.

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"Burgh"
blocks, settlement
item:- JandMN : 82.1
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evidence:-

old map:- Post Office 1850s-1900s
placename:- Burgh

source data:-

Post road maps, General Post Office Circulation Map for England and Wales, for the General Post Office, London, 1850s-1900s.

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"Burgh"
map date 1909

evidence:-

old map:- Post Office 1850s-1900s
placename:- Burgh

source data:-

Post road maps, General Post Office Circulation Map for England and Wales, for the General Post Office, London, 1850s-1900s.

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"Burgh"
map date 1892

evidence:-

old map:- Post Office 1850s-1900s
placename:- Burgh

source data:-

Post road maps, General Post Office Circulation Map for England and Wales, for the General Post Office, London, 1850s-1900s.

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"Burgh"
map date 1890

images courtesy of the British Postal Museum and Hampshire CC Museums

hearsay:-

John Stagg, known as Blin' Stagg the Fiddler, was born here, 1770. His father was a tailor. He was educated to be a clergyman, but lost his sight in an accident. He played the fiddle and sang, and was in great demand for merry nights.

There was a bakehouse for bread and tatie pots down Tatie Pot Alley.

places:-

NY32685891 Amberfield (Burgh by Sands)

NY314592 Burgh by Sands Castle (Burgh by Sands) gone