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Gilsland
civil parish:-   Solport (formerly Cumberland)
civil parish:-   Nicholforest (formerly Cumberland)
civil parish:-   Bewcastle (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   locality
1Km square:-   NY4070 (etc) 
10Km square:-   NY47
evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 13 5) 
placename:-  Gilsland
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:- Lloyd 1573
placename:-  Gyllysland
source data:-   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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"Gyllysland"
item:-  Hampshire Museums : FA1998.69
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evidence:-   old map:- Saxton 1579
placename:-  Gilsland
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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"GILSLAND"
item:-  private collection : 2
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evidence:-   old map:- Mercator 1595 (edn?) 
placename:-  Gilslande
source data:-   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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"Gilslande"
area 
item:-  JandMN : 169
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evidence:-   old map:- Speed 1611 (Cmd) 
placename:-  Gilsland
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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"Gilsland"
area 
item:-  private collection : 16
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evidence:-   old map:- Drayton 1612/1622
placename:-  Gilslande
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Cumberlande and Westmorlande, by Michael Drayton, probably engraved by William Hole, scale about 4 or 5 miles to 1 inch, published by John Mariott, John Grismand, and Thomas Dewe, London, 1622.
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"Gilslande"
Sitting lady. 
item:-  JandMN : 168
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evidence:-   old map:- Jansson 1646
placename:-  Gilsland
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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"Gilsland."
Labelling an area, no symbol. 
item:-  JandMN : 88
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evidence:-   old map:- Seller 1694 (Cmd) 
placename:-  Gilsland
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Cumberland, scale about 12 miles to 1 inch, by John Seller, 1694.
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"Gilsland"
circle, italic lowercase text; settlement or house 
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2007.38.89
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evidence:-   old map:- Bowen and Kitchin 1760
placename:-  Gillsland
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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"GILLSLAND"
area 
item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.14.10
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evidence:-   old text:- Camden 1789 (Gough Additions) 
placename:-  Gillesland
item:-  placename, Gilsland
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 201:-  "Gillesland might also take its name from Hubert de Vallibus or Vaux, since de Vallibus and Gills mean the same, or from the river Gelt which runs through the middle of it. The bottom wherein the brook runs is the Gill. Its boundary may be seen in Burn, II. p.479."
evidence:-   old text:- Gents Mag
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 1819 part 1 p.505 
From the Compendium of County History:-  "1311. Gilsland ravaged by Robert Bruce King of Scotland."
"..."
"1319. Gilsland laid waste by the Scots under James Douglas and Thomas Randolph."
evidence:-   old text:- Gents Mag 1819
item:-  fire, Gilsland
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Gentleman's Magazine 1819 part 1 p.506  "1388. In Gilsland, on Lord Dacre's demesne, 200 decrepit persons, women and children, shut up in houses, and burnt by the Scots."
also see:-    Barony of Gilsland, Cumberland
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