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High Ireby, Ireby
High Ireby
civil parish:-   Ireby (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   locality
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   NY23073720 (etc) 
1Km square:-   NY2337
10Km square:-   NY23

evidence:-   old map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd) 
placename:-  High Ireby
placename:-  Ireby, High
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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"High Ireby"
block or blocks, labelled in lowercase; a hamlet or just a house 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library

evidence:-   old map:- Ford 1839 map
placename:-  High Ireby
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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"High Ireby"
item:-  JandMN : 100.1
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   descriptive text:- Simpson 1746
placename:-  Ireby Alta
placename:-  High Ireby
source data:-   Atlas, three volumes of maps and descriptive text published as 'The Agreeable Historian, or the Compleat English Traveller ...', by Samuel Simpson, 1746.
image SMP4P185, button  goto source
"..."
"Westward of Penrith, and not far from the Head of the River Eln, stands"
"Ierby, ... is become two Manors, the one called Ireby Alta, or High Ireby, and the other Ireby Basse, or Low Ireby, and often Market Ireby, because tho' the other be the more ancient Town, ... this ... hath always been of more Account, ... The High Ireby, was a long Time the Possession of a Family of that Name, descended from Orme de Ireby, Son of Gospatrick. ..."

places:-  
NY23243769 Bintee Quarries (Ireby)
NY231376 limekiln, Ireby (Ireby)
NY23063706 pinfold, High Ireby (Ireby) not found
NY231376 quarry, High Ireby (Ireby)
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