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Kirkoswald
civil parish:-   Kirkoswald (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   locality
locality type:-   buildings
locality type:-   selected place
coordinates:-   NY55504121
1Km square:-   NY5541
10Km square:-   NY54
latitude; longitude:-   2d 41.5m W; 54d 45.8m N


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BJU34.jpg (taken 26.8.2005)  
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BUL38.jpg (taken 29.4.2011)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 40 6) 
placename:-  Kirkoswald
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.

evidence:-   old map:- Saxton 1579
placename:-  Kirkoswold
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmorlandiae et Cumberlandiae Comitatus ie Westmorland and Cumberland, scale about 5 miles to 1 inch, by Christopher Saxton, London, engraved by Augustinus Ryther, 1576, published 1579-1645.
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Church, symbol for a parish or village, with a parish church.  "Kirkoswold"
item:-  private collection : 2
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evidence:-   old map:- Mercator 1595 (edn?) 
placename:-  Kirk Oswald
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Northumbria, Cumberlandia, et Dunelmensis Episcopatus, ie Northumberland, Cumberland and Durham etc, scale about 6.5 miles to 1 inch, by Gerard Mercator, Duisberg, Germany, about 1595.
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"Kirk Oswald"
circle, building and tower 
item:-  JandMN : 169
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evidence:-   old map:- Speed 1611 (Cmd) 
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Cumberland and the Ancient Citie Carlile Described, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by John Speed, 1610, published by J Sudbury and George Humble, Popes Head Alley, London, 1611-12.
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SP11NY54.jpg
circle, building, tower 
item:-  private collection : 16
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evidence:-   old map:- Jansson 1646
placename:-  Kirkoswold
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Cumbria and Westmoria, ie Cumberland and Westmorland, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Jansson, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1646.
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JAN3NY54.jpg
"Kirkoswold"
Buildings and tower. 
item:-  JandMN : 88
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evidence:-   old map:- Sanson 1679
placename:-  Kirkoswold
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Ancien Royaume de Northumberland aujourdhuy Provinces de Nort, ie the Ancient Kingdom of Northumberland or the Northern Provinces, scale about 9.5 miles to 1 inch, by Nicholas Sanson, Paris, France, 1679.
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SAN2Cm.jpg
"Kirkoswold"
circle, building and tower, flag; town? 
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2007.38.15
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evidence:-   old map:- Morden 1695 (EW) 
placename:-  Kirkoswald
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, England, including Wales, scale about 27 miles to 1 inch, by Robert Morden, published by Abel Swale Awnsham and John Churchil, London, about 1695.
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"Kirkoswald"
circle; village or town 
item:-  JandMN : 339
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evidence:-   old map:- Morden 1695 (Cmd) 
placename:-  Kirk Oswald
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Cumberland, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Robert Morden, 1695, published by Abel Swale, the Unicorn, St Paul's Churchyard, Awnsham, and John Churchill, the Black Swan, Paternoster Row, London, 1695-1715.
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"Kirk Oswald"
Circle, buildings, towers. 
item:-  JandMN : 90
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evidence:-   old map:- Badeslade 1742
placename:-  Kirk Oswald
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, A Map of Cumberland North from London, scale about 11 miles to 1 inch, with descriptive text, by Thomas Badeslade, London, engraved and published by William Henry Toms, Union Court, Holborn, London, 1742.
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"Kirk Oswald"
circle labelled in upright lowercase text; town? 
item:-  JandMN : 115
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evidence:-   descriptive text:- Simpson 1746
placename:-  Kirkswald
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 SMP4P176, button  goto source
"The principal Towns in Cumberland, are, ... Kerkoswald, ..."
image SMP4P186, button  goto source
"..."
"Kirkswald, lying Westward of Wigtown, and the City of Carlisle, and on the Western Banks of the River Eden, is a small Market Town, which had its Name from the Church, dedicated to St. Oswald. There is nothing here of any Note. It is 210 Miles computed, and 252 measured from London. The Market is held on Thursdays."

evidence:-   old map:- Simpson 1746 map (Wmd) 
placename:-  Kirkoswald
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Westmorland, scale about 8 miles to 1 inch, printed by R Walker, Fleet Lane, London, 1746.
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SMP2NYM.jpg
"Kirkoswald"
Circle. 
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2007.38.59
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evidence:-   old map:- Bickham 1753-54 (Cmd) 
placename:-  Kirk Oswald
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, perspective map, Map of Cumberland North from London, by George Bickham, James Street, Bunhill Fields, London, 1753, published by F Jollie and Sons, Carlisle, Cumberland, 1811.
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"Kirk Oswald"
view (sort of) 
item:-  Carlisle Library : 4.2
Image © Carlisle Library

evidence:-   old map:- Bowen and Kitchin 1760
placename:-  Kirk Oswald
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, A New Map of the Counties of Cumberland and Westmoreland Divided into their Respective Wards, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Emanuel Bowen and Thomas Kitchin et al, published by T Bowles, Robert Sayer, and John Bowles, London, 1760.
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"Kirk Oswald Mar. Th. / V"
blocks, street plan, town, market, vicarage 
item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.14.10
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evidence:-   old text:- Pennant 1773
placename:-  Kirk Oswald
item:-  murdersword, Morville
source data:-   Book, A Tour from Downing to Alston Moor, 1773, by Thomas Pennant, published by Edward Harding, 98 Pall Mall, London, 1801.
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Pennant's Tour 1773, page 167  "The vale now expands, and has a rich appearance. I reached Kirk-Oswald, a small town on the east side of the Eden. A considerable estate adjacent belongs to Sir Philip Musgrave, having been purchased by his father Sir Christopher from the co-heiresses; from Lennard lord Dacre, created Earl of Sussex by Charles, on the merit of having married a daughter of his by the Duchess of Cleaveland. Lord Dacre acquired it from Lennard, Lennard from a Fynes, he from the Dacres; again they from a Multon, Multon from Hugh de Morville, and, finally, De Morville"
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Pennant's Tour 1773, page 168  "from his wife Helwise, daughter of a Stotevil. Hugh de Morville was one of the murderers of Thomas Becket, the turbulent priest of the reign of Henry II. who a thousand times had merited a legal death: but the manner was as horrible, as the scene was impious. No peculiar judgments followed the assassins, as superstition feigned; no tails issued from behind, to mark them as so many Cains, as the monks alleged; no sudden deaths overtook them. William de Tracy lived almost to the reign of King John, and Hugh de Morville till about the sixth year of that monarch. In the second he obtained a licence to inclose his woods at Kirk-Oswald, to fortify his manor-house, and to have there an annual fair and weekly market. Nor did his remorse seem to have been very deep, if it is true that he preserved the sword with which he did the murder. ..."

evidence:-   old map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd) 
placename:-  Kirkoswald
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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"KIRKOSWALD"
blocks, perhaps a church, labelled in block caps; a town 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library

evidence:-   old map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd) 
placename:-  Kirkoswald
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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"KIRKOSWALD"
Labelled in block caps for a market town; a cluster of buildings on the roads. 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library

evidence:-   old map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd) 
placename:-  Kirkoswald
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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D4NY54SE.jpg
"KIRKOSWALD"
blocks, perhaps a church, labelled in block caps; a town 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library

evidence:-   old map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd) 
placename:-  Kirkoswald
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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DN04Krks.jpg
"KIRKOSWALD"
Labelled in block caps for a market town; a cluster of buildings on the roads. 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library

evidence:-   old map:- Pennant 1777
placename:-  Kirk Oswald
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, A Map of Scotland, Hebrides and Part of England, drawn for Thomas Pennant, engraved by J Bayly, published by Benjamin White, London, 1777.
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PEN1Cm.jpg
"Kirk Oswald"
circle; buildings, village, etc 
item:-  private collection : 66
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evidence:-   old text:- Camden 1789
placename:-  Kirk Oswald
item:-  sword
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 174:-  "..."
"... Kirk Oswald, dedicated to St. Oswald, formerly the property of that Hugh Morvill, who, with his accomplices, murdered Thomas archbishop of Canterbury, in memory of which fact the sword which he then used was long preserved here; ..."

evidence:-   old text:- Camden 1789 (Gough Additions) 
placename:-  Kirk Oswald
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 190:-  "..."
"[Kirk Oswald castle] ... sir Hugh Morbill, who got the town [Kirkoswald] a market t. John, ..."

evidence:-   old map:- Aikin 1790 (Cmd) 
placename:-  Kirk Oswald
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Cumberland, by John Aikin, London, 1790.
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"Kirk Oswald"
circle; town 
item:-  JandMN : 145
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evidence:-   old map:- Bailey 1797
placename:-  Kirkoswald
source data:-   Map, soil etc, uncoloured engraving, Cumberland, scale about 21 miles to 1 inch, by J Bailey, engraved by Neele, Strand, published by Messrs Robinson, Paternoster Row and G Nicol, Pall Mall, London, 1797.
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"Kirkoswald"
group of blocks; town 
item:-  Armitt Library : A680.2
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evidence:-   road book:- Cary 1798 (2nd edn 1802) 
placename:-  Kirkoswald
source data:-   Road book, itineraries, Cary's New Itinerary, by John Cary, 181 Strand, London, 2nd edn 1802.
image CY38p319, button  goto source
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page 319-320  "Kirkoswald"
market town 
item:-  JandMN : 228.1
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evidence:-   old map:- Cooke 1802
placename:-  Kirk Oswald
source data:-   Map, Cumberland, scale about 15.5 miles to 1 inch, by George Cooke, 1802, bound in Gray's New Book of Roads, 1824, published by Sherwood, Jones and Co, Paternoster Road, London, 1824.
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"Kirk Oswald / 290"
blocks, upright lowercase text; town, distance from London 
item:-  Hampshire Museums : FA2000.62.2
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evidence:-   old map:- Laurie and Whittle 1806
placename:-  Kirk Oswald
source data:-   Road map, Continuation of the Roads to Glasgow and Edinburgh, scale about 10 miles to 1 inch, by Nathaniel Coltman? 1806, published by Robert H Laurie, 53 Fleet Street, London, 1834.
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"Kirk Oswald 292"
market town; distance from London 
item:-  private collection : 18.21
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evidence:-   old text:- Capper 1808
placename:-  Kirk Oswald
item:-  populationmarketfair
source data:-   Gazetteer, A Topographical Dictionary of the United Kingdom, compiled by Benjamin Pitts Capper, published by Richard Phillips, Bridge Street, Blackfriars, London, 1808; published 1808-29.
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"..."
"KIRK OSWALD, a market-town and parish in Leath ward, Cumberland, 7 miles from Penrith, and 292 from London; containing 139 houses and 634 inhabitants. It lies on the east side of the river Eden, near which stands the remains of a castle, once a magnificent residence. In the reign of Henry VIII. a college was founded here for 12 priests. The church is a very irregular, old building, ... Here is a dissenting meeting-house and a charity school. Market on Thursday. Fairs Thursday before Whitsunday and 5th August. The living is a vicarage, rated at 8l. Patron the king."
"..."

evidence:-   old map:- Cooper 1808
placename:-  Kirk Oswald
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Cumberland, scale about 10.5 miles to 1 inch, drawn and engraved by Cooper, published by R Phillips, Bridge Street, Blackfriars, London, 1808.
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COP3.jpg
"Kirk Oswald"
circle with two side bars; town 
item:-  JandMN : 86
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evidence:-   old map:- Wallis 1810 (Cmd) 
placename:-  Kirk Oswald
source data:-   Road map, hand coloured engraving, Cumberland, scale about 16 miles to 1 inch, by James Wallis, 77 Berwick Stree, Soho, London, 1810.
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"Kirk Oswald / [ ]"
town; distance from London 
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2009.81.10
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evidence:-   old map:- Otley 1818
placename:-  Kirkoswald
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, The District of the Lakes, Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Jonathan Otley, 1818, engraved by J and G Menzies, Edinburgh, Scotland, published by Jonathan Otley, Keswick, Cumberland, et al, 1833.
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"KIRKOSWALD"
item:-  JandMN : 48.1
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evidence:-   old text:- Gents Mag
item:-  fire, Kirkoswald
source data:-   Magazine, The Gentleman's Magazine or Monthly Intelligencer or Historical Chronicle, published by Edward Cave under the pseudonym Sylvanus Urban, and by other publishers, London, monthly from 1731 to 1922.
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Gentleman's Magazine 1819 part 1 p.505 
From the Compendium of County History:-  "1314. Kirk-oswald burnt and Lanercost pillaged by the Scots under Edward Bruce, brother of the King."

evidence:-   old map:- Hall 1820 (Cmd) 
placename:-  Kirkoswald
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Cumberland, scale about 21 miles to 1 inch, engraved by Sidney Hall, published by S Leigh, 18 Strand, London, 1820-31.
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HA14.jpg
"Kirkoswald / 292"
circle, upright lowercase text; town; distance from London 
item:-  JandMN : 91
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evidence:-   old map:- Perrot 1823
placename:-  Kirkaswald
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Cumberland and Westmoreland ie Westmorland, scale about 38 miles to 1 inch, by Aristide Michel Perrot, engraved by Migneret, 1823, published by Etienne Ledoux, 9 Rue Guenegaud, Paris, France, 1824-48.
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"Kirkas-wald"
circle; town 
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2007.38.45
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evidence:-   old map:- Greenwood 1824
placename:-  Kirkoswald
source data:-   Map, engraving, Map of the County of Cumberland, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, etc, by Christopher and John Greenwood, published by George Pringle jnr, 70 Queen Street, Cheapside, London, 1823.
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"KIRKOSWALD"
street map; labelled in block caps for a market town. 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.b.3.11
Image © National Library of Scotland

evidence:-   old map:- Cobbett 1832
placename:-  Kirk Oswald
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Cumberland, scale about 20 miles to 1 inch, by William Cobbett, 11 Bolt Court, Fleet Street, London, 1832.
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"Kirk Oswald"
dot and circle; town 
item:-  JandMN : 117
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evidence:-   descriptive text:- Ford 1839 (3rd edn 1843) 
placename:-  Kirkoswald
source data:-   Guide book, A Description of Scenery in the Lake District, by Rev William Ford, published by Charles Thurnam, Carlisle, by W Edwards, 12 Ave Maria Lane, Charles Tilt, Fleet Street, William Smith, 113 Fleet Street, London, by Currie and Bowman, Newcastle, by Bancks and Co, Manchester, by Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh, and by Sinclair, Dumfries, 1839.
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Page 128:-  "..."
"KIRKOSWALD"
"Is an irregular-built market-town, crowning the ridge of a hill. The most interesting objects are the Church and Castle. ..."
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Page 29:-  "... A branch of the Northumberland Fetherstonhaughs is seated at the College in this town."

evidence:-   old map:- Ford 1839 map
placename:-  Kirkoswald
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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"KIRKOSWALD"
item:-  JandMN : 100.1
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evidence:-   old map:- Garnett 1850s-60s H
placename:-  Kirkoswald
source data:-   Map of the English Lakes, in Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, 1850s-60s.
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GAR2NY54.jpg
"Kirkoswald"
blocks, settlement 
item:-  JandMN : 82.1
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evidence:-   market notes:- 
item:-  market
source data:-   www.history.ac.uk/cmh/gaz/gazweb2.htmBowen, Emanuel &Kitchin, Thomas: 1760: New Map of the Counties of Cumberland and Westmoreland

 Post Office maps

evidence:-   old print:- Calverley 1899
item:-  fibulaKirkoswald Fibula
source data:-   Found in Kirkoswald, now in the British Museum:-
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CV1158.jpg
from Lysons. 
item:-  JandMN : 190
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text:-  
Horse and pony races, and other sports, on Easter Monday. 1829:-
"[the sports commenced as usual by the catching of a cock with the mouth, which afforded glorious fun to the Johnnies." There was wrestling, and "Many were the half-crowns and shillings that exchanged pockets each fall.]"

Fairfax-Blakeborough 1950


photograph
BZH18.jpg  Half bushel standard measure:-
"KIRKOSWOLD 1662" and a coat of arms.
(taken 17.9.2013)  

places:-  
NY55514120 Black Bull, The (Kirkoswald) L
NY55594121 brewery, Kirkoswald (Kirkoswald) gone?
NY55564112 Raven Bridge (Kirkoswald)
NY55594111 building, Kirkoswald (Kirkoswald)
NY55454126 chapel, Kirkoswald (3) (Kirkoswald)
NY55424139 chapel, Kirkoswald (4) (Kirkoswald)
NY55474109 College, The (Kirkoswald) L
NY55524117 Cornmill, The (Kirkoswald) L
NY55534119 Crown Inn, The (Kirkoswald) L
NY55604105 Demesne Farm (Kirkoswald) L
NY55474120 drain, Kirkoswald (Kirkoswald)
NY55484128 Eden Bank (Kirkoswald) L
NY55504122 Fetherston Arms (Kirkoswald) L
NY55584134 Fetherston Hill (Kirkoswald)
NY55484104 gate, Kirkoswald (Kirkoswald) L
NY55544119 George House (Kirkoswald) L
NY55514124 High College (Kirkoswald) L
NY55464128 Hill House (Kirkoswald) L
NY55564113 house, Kirkoswald (Kirkoswald) L
NY55434135 house, Kirkoswald (2) (Kirkoswald)
NY55464135 house, Kirkoswald (3) (Kirkoswald)
NY55484124 house, Kirkoswald (4) (Kirkoswald)
NY55464122 Kings Head House (Kirkoswald)
NY559410 Kirkoswald Castle (Kirkoswald) L
NY55494134 Kirkoswald CofE School (Kirkoswald)
NY55484120 Market Place (Kirkoswald)
NY55554118 Midland Bank (Kirkoswald) L
NY55564116 Manor House (Kirkoswald) L
NY55524117 Mill House (Kirkoswald) L
NY554408 moat, Kirkoswald (Kirkoswald)
NY55604112 pinfold, Kirkoswald (Kirkoswald) gone
NY55484122 Old Post Office (Kirkoswald) L
NY55584148 Sandhill Top (Kirkoswald)
NY55564119 saw mill, Kirkoswald (Kirkoswald) gone
NY55644120 saw mill, Kirkoswald (2) (Kirkoswald)
NY55564114 Sparrows (Kirkoswald)
NY55494121 stocks, Kirkoswald (Kirkoswald) L
NY55474120 telephone box, Kirkoswald (Kirkoswald) L
NY55304157 Townend (Kirkoswald)
NY55484120 Church Institute (Kirkoswald)
NY55494121 war memorial, Kirkoswald (Kirkoswald)
NY55534120 Wordsley House (Kirkoswald) L
NY55514090 St Oswald's Church (Kirkoswald) L
NY555412 bull baiting ring, Kirkoswald (Kirkoswald)
NY55234166 Potter's Bank Bridge (Kirkoswald)
NY55504088 St Oswald's Well (Kirkoswald)
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