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Great Blencow, Dacre
Great Blencow
locality:-   Blencow
civil parish:-   Dacre (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   NY45653240
1Km square:-   NY4532
10Km square:-   NY43

evidence:-   old text:- Camden 1789 (Gough Additions) 
placename:-  Great Blencowe
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.
image CAM2P192, button  goto source
Page 192:-  "..."
"Below Greystock on the Peterel lies Geat Blencowe, belonging to an antient family of that name, whose ruined tower is still to be seen at Little Blencowe. ..."

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