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Lowgill Junction, Lowgill
Lowgill Junction
site name:-   Lancaster and Carlisle Railway
site name:-   Low Gill and Ingleton branch railway
locality:-   Lowgill
locality:-   Dillicar
civil parish:-   Grayrigg (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   railway junction
coordinates:-   SD62269763 (about) 
1Km square:-   SD6297
10Km square:-   SD69

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 34 12) 
placename:-  Lowgill Junction
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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"Point[sman's] Box / s.p."

evidence:-   old map:- Post Office 1850s-1900s
placename:-  Low Gill Junction
source data:-   Post road maps, General Post Office Circulation Map for England and Wales, for the General Post Office, London, 1850s-1900s.
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"Low Gill Junction"
map date 1909 

evidence:-   old map:- Post Office 1850s-1900s
placename:-  Low Gill Junction
source data:-   Post road maps, General Post Office Circulation Map for England and Wales, for the General Post Office, London, 1850s-1900s.
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"Low Gill Junction"
map date 1892 

evidence:-   old map:- Post Office 1850s-1900s
placename:-  Low Gill Junction
source data:-   Post road maps, General Post Office Circulation Map for England and Wales, for the General Post Office, London, 1850s-1900s.
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"Low Gill Junction"
map date 1890 

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images courtesy of the British Postal Museum and Hampshire CC Museums

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