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Hill, Sedbergh
civil parish:-   Sedbergh (formerly Yorkshire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   SD62589055
1Km square:-   SD6290
10Km square:-   SD69


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BRH47.jpg (taken 13.8.2009)  
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BRH48.jpg  Date stone,
"H / P S / 1992" (taken 13.8.2009)  

evidence:-   old map:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd) 
placename:-  Hill
source data:-   Map, 4 sheets, The County of Westmoreland, scale 1 inch to 1 mile, surveyed 1768, and engraved and published by Thomas Jefferys, London, 1770.
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"Hill"
house 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Hill, The
item:-  date stone (1712)
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"THE HILL / / KIRKBY LONSDALE ROAD / SEDBERGH / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II[star] / 484598 / SD6258690550"

evidence:-   old print:- Thompson 1894
placename:-  Hill Top
source data:-   Print, engraving, Hill Top ie The Hill, Sedbergh, Yorkshire, by S A Symington, published by Richard Jackson, Commercial Street, Leeds, Yorkshire, 1894.
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On p.92 of An Illustrated Guide to Sedbergh, Garsdale, and Dent, by W Thompson. 
printed at lower right:-  "[S] A Symington"
item:-  Armitt Library : A1612.B23
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   old print:- Clark and Hughes 1890
source data:-   Print, engraving, The Hill, Sedbergh where Adam Sedgwick lodged when at Sedbergh School, from a watercolour painting by William Westall, about 1820, published by Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, 1890.
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The farmer here was Edmund Foster. 
Opposite vol.1 p.54 of The Life and Letters of the Reverend Adam Sedgwick. 
item:-  private collection : 195.5
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