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| Kirkby Hall, Kirkby Ireleth | ||
| Kirkby Hall | ||
| civil parish:- | Kirkby Ireleth (formerly Lancashire) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | buildings | |
| coordinates:- | SD23578353 | |
| 1Km square:- | SD2383 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD28 | |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Lan 11 5) placename:- Kirkby Hall |
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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 (Gough Additions) placename:- Kirkby Cross House item:- cross; iron ore |
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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 143:- "Kirkby near Ireleth was the seat of the antient family of Kirkby from the Conquest, but now belongs to lord John Cavendish. The manor-house, now mostly down, was called Kirkby cross house, from a cross before the door, whose head is said to have been broken off by order of archbishop Sandys who was born at Hawkshead. Ireleth is the place whence the iron ore is now shipped, and its name may be derived from ire iron, and lath a barn, in the country dialect" |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:- Kirkby Hall |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "KIRKBY HALL / / A595 / KIRKBY IRELETH / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / I / 75868 / SD2356483547" |
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| notes:- |
possible defensive hall |
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| Perriam, D R &Robinson, J: 1998: Medieval Fortified Buildings of Cumbria: CWAAS::
ISBN 1 873124 23 6; plan |
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