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Middle Swinklebank, Longsleddale
Middle Swinklebank
locality:-   Swinklebank
civil parish:-   Longsleddale (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   NY49450410
1Km square:-   NY4904
10Km square:-   NY40


photograph
CBC49.jpg  Swinklebank House and Saddler's Croft
(taken 11.7.2014)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 27 11) 
placename:-  Middle Swinklebank
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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"Middle Swinklebank"

evidence:-   census returns:- 
placename:-  Middle Swinklebank
placename:-  Middle Swinkle Bank

evidence:-   old map:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd) 
placename:-  Swinkle Bank
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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"Swinkle Bank"
circle, labelled in italic lowercase text; settlement, farm, house, or hamlet? 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland

evidence:-   old map:- Kendal Corn Rent Act 1836
placename:-  Middle Swindle Bank
source data:-   Tithe map, Plan of part of the Township of Longsleddale, Westmorland, made regarding the Kendal Corn Rent Act, ie a tithe award map, scale about 20 inches to 1 mile, Kendal, Westmorland, 1836.
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courtesy of Mark Cropper
Plan of part of the Township of Longsleddale, Westmorland, made regarding the Kendal Corn Rent Act, ie a tithe award map, scale about 20 inches to 1 mile, Kendal, Westmorland, 1836.  "MIDDLE SWINDLE BANK"
item:-  private collection : 370
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 Kendal Corn Rent Act 1836

evidence:-   old map:- OS 1881-82 New Series (outline edition) 
placename:-  Swinklebank
source data:-   Map, engraving, area north of Kendal, Westmorland, New Series one inch map, outline edition, sheet 39, scale 1 inch to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, 1881-82.
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, "Swinklebank"
item:-  JandMN : 61
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evidence:-   old map:- Thurnam 1920s
placename:-  
source data:-   Map, colour lithograph, Thurnam's Map of Carlisle and District, scale about 2 miles to 1 inch, by .Gall and Inglis, edinburgh, published by Charles Thurnam and Sons, Carlisle, Cumberland, 13th edn 1920s-30s?
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"Swinklebank"
overprinted to show a  "HOSTEL"
item:-  JandMN : 764
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 census records

 directory entries

evidence:-   map:- OS Six Inch (1956) 
placename:-  Middle Swinklebank
source data:-   Map series, various editions with the national grid, scale about 6 inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, scale 1 to 10560 from 1950s to 1960s, then 1 to 10000 from 1960s to 2000s, superseded by print on demand from digital data.
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"Middle Swinklebank"

evidence:-   shepherds guide:- Wilson 1913
placename:-  Middle Swinkle Bank
source data:-   Book, New Shepherd's Guide for Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire, by Thomas Wilson, 1913.
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"F. W. Carr, Middle Swinkle Bank; cropped far ear, red stroke from shoulder to fillets and down lisk on far side, I T on both horns; lambs and ewes after clipping T on far side."
item:-  private collection : 329
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evidence:-   shepherds guide:- Gate 1879
placename:-  Middle Swingle Bank
source data:-   Book, New Shepherd's Guide for Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Lancashire, published by Daniel Gate, Keswick, Cumberland, 1879.
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"I. T. TAYLOR, Middle Swingle Bank and Thornshow; croppped far, stroke from shoulder to fillets and down lisk on far side, IT on both horns."
item:-  Kendal Library : 38
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evidence:-   shepherds guide:- Hodgson 1849
placename:-  Middle Swingle Bank
source data:-   Book, Shepherd's Guide, or a Delineation of the Wool and Ear Marks of the Different Stocks of Sheep, Lancashire, Cumberland, and Westmorland, by William Hodgson, Normoss, Corney, Cumberland, 1849.
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"HENRY MATTINSON, Middle Swingle Bank."
"Cropped far ear, a red stroke from the shoulder blade to the lisk, and down the lisk on the far side, HM on the far horn."
item:-  Kendal Library : 39
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photograph
BIG36.jpg  Swinklebank House, Middle Swinklebank.
(taken 4.12.2003)  

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