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| Hanging Walls of Mark Anthony, Culgaith | ||
| Hanging Walls of Mark Anthony | ||
| locality:- | Kirkland | |
| civil parish:- | Culgaith (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | cultivation terraces | |
| coordinates:- | NY65203217 (etc) | |
| 1Km square:- | NY6532 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY63 | |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 51 14) placename:- Hanging Walls of Mark Anthony |
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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 placename:- Hanging Walls of Marcantoniby placename:- Hanging Walls of Mark Anthony |
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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 149:- "... the river Blencarne, ... on which I am told are confused ruins of a castle called the Hanging walls of Marcantoniby, or, as they fancy, Mark Anthony." |
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