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school, Burneside
Burneside School
Street:-   Steele's Row (?) 
locality:-   Burneside
civil parish:-   Strickland Ketel (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
locality type:-   school (once) 
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   SD50499578
1Km square:-   SD5095
10Km square:-   SD59


photograph
BLM66.jpg (taken 31.12.2005)  
photograph
BMJ69.jpg  Inscribed slate:-
"This School was Rebuilt by the Benefaction OF THE REV: ALLEN FISHER of Hundow in Strickland Roger who Likewise bequeathed Six Hundred pounds for its Endowment and other pious Uses. And departed this Life May 16th. 1787 Aged 84." (taken 11.7.2006)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 33 15) 
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.
"Endowed School"

hearsay:-  
Allen Fisher's bequest included a library of books which 'must never leave the building'.

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