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Kent Valley
site name:-   Kent, River
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   valley
10Km square:-   SD59 (etc) 
1Km square:-   SD5090
10Km square:-   NY40
10Km square:-   SD49
10Km square:-   SD59
10Km square:-   SD58
10Km square:-   SD48
evidence:-   old map:- Gough 1350s-60s
placename:-  Kendale
source data:-   Map, colour photozincograph copy, reduced size facsimile, Gough Map of Britain, scale about 28.5 miles to 1 inch, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, 1875.
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"Kendale"
Written in a cartouche north of Beetham. 
item:-  JandMN : 33
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evidence:-   old map:- Gough 1350s-60s
placename:-  Kendale
source data:-   Map, lithograph facsimile, Gough Map of Britain, 20 miles to 1 inch? published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, 1935.
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"Kendale"
Written in a cartouche north of Beetham. 
item:-  JandMN : 34
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evidence:-   presumably old map:- Ptolemy 1540
placename:-  Kendale
source data:-   Map, copy, uncoloured lithograph? Anglia II Nova Tabula, New Map of England, scale about 50 miles to 1 inch, data in the Geographia by Claudius Ptolemy, engraved by Sebastian Munster, Basle, Switzerland, 1540.
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"Kendale"
area 
item:-  private collection : 131
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evidence:-   old map:- Drayton 1612/1622
placename:-  Kandale
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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"Kandale"
Lady sitting. 
item:-  JandMN : 168
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evidence:-   old text:- Camden 1789
placename:-  Kendale
placename:-  Candale
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 147:-  "..."
"The southern part of this county [Westmorland], which is contracted in a narrow space between the river Lone and Winander mere is reckoned very fruitful in the vales, though it has its rough and slippery craggs, and is comprehended under the general name of The Barony of Kendale, or Candale, q.d. the Valley on the Can, a river which runs over rocks through this valley, and gives name to it, ..."
evidence:-   text:- Mason 1907 (edn 1930) 
placename:-  Vale of Kendal
source data:-   Text book, The Ambleside Geography Books bk.III, The Counties of England, by Charlotte M Mason, published by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co, Broadway House, 68-74 Carter Lane, and the Parents' Educational Union Office, 26 Victoria Street, London, edn 1930.
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Page 24:-  "..."
"There are two fertile valleys in Westmoreland - the Vale of Eden, ... and the Vale of Kendal, which is a very old town upon the Kent, where the wool of the mountain"
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Page 25:-  "sheep is manufactured."
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