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| Castle Folds, Asby | ||
| Castle Folds | ||
| locality:- | Great Asby Scar | |
| civil parish:- | Asby (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | british settlement | |
| coordinates:- | NY65000934 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY6509 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY60 | |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 22 9) placename:- Castle Folds |
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| 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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| evidence:- | old text:- Camden 1789 (Gough Additions) placename:- Castle Folds |
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| 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. goto sourcePage 156:- "... Behind Orton Scarr, ... on a large tract of naked rocks in a solitary place, is a place called Castle folds, strongly walled about, and containing about one acre and a half, to shelter cattle in case of inroads, and at the highest corner has been a fort for the keepers. ..." |
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| evidence:- | site plan:- Historical Monuments 1936 placename:- Castle Folds |
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| source data:- | Site plan, uncoloured lithograph, Castle Folds in Asby parish, Asby, Westmorland,
scale about 1 to 1300, published by Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England,
London, 1936. click to enlargeHMW017.jpg On p.19 of the Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Westmorland. printed, top "CASTLE FOLDS / In Asby parish" RCHME no. Wmd, Asby 22 item:- Armitt Library : A745.17 Image © see bottom of page |
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