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| Old Tebay, Tebay | ||
| Old Tebay | ||
| locality:- | Tebay | |
| civil parish:- | Tebay (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | buildings | |
| coordinates:- | NY61630514 (etc) | |
| 1Km square:- | NY6105 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY60 | |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 28 8) placename:- Tebay |
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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 map:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd) placename:- Tebay |
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| 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. J5NY60NW.jpg "Tebay" blocks, labelled in upright lowercase text; settlement; town? item:- National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47 Image © National Library of Scotland |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Cary 1789 (edn 1805) placename:- Tebay |
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| source data:- | Map, uncoloured engraving, Westmoreland, scale about 2.5 miles
to 1 inch, by John Cary, London, 1789; edition 1805. CY24NY60.jpg "Tebay" block/s, labelled in italic lowercase; house, or hamlet item:- JandMN : 129 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Cooke 1802 placename:- Tebay |
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| source data:- | Map, Westmoreland ie Westmorland, scale about 12 miles to 1
inch, by George Cooke, 1802, published by Sherwood, Jones and
Co, Paternoster Road, London, 1824. click to enlargeGRA1Wd.jpg "Tebay" blocks, italic lowercase text, village, hamlet, locality item:- Hampshire Museums : FA2000.62.4 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Wallis 1810 (Wmd) placename:- Tebay |
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| source data:- | Road map, Westmoreland, scale about 19 miles to 1 inch, by James
Wallis, 77 Berwick Street, Soho, 1810, published by W Lewis,
Finch Lane, London, 1835? click to enlargeWAL5.jpg "Teba[y]" village, hamlet, house, ... item:- JandMN : 63 Image © see bottom of page |
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| story:- |
Mary Baines lived at Old Tebay. She was thought to be a witch; if anything went wrong
it was her fault, sour milk in the churn, a calf dying at birth, whatever. |
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| Ned Nissen, landlord of the Cross Keys, had a dog which killed Mary's black cat. Out
of respect, and fear, he ordered his servant to bury the cat decently. Mary told him
what to say over the cat's grave, but the servant ignored this and recited:- |
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| "Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, / Here's a hole, and in tha must." |
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| Mary cursed him. When next he went into the fields a plough jumped up and hit his
head with its handle, and blinded him. |
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| One of her last predictions was that:- |
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| "carriages without horses shall run across Loups Fell" |
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| After she died in bed, aged 80, in 1811, there were, in 1846, carriages running without
horses on the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway. |
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