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Towtop Kirk, Bampton
Towtop Kirk
Bampton Towtop Kirk
locality:-   Cawdale
civil parish:-   Bampton (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   enclosure
locality type:-   earthwork
coordinates:-   NY49311793
1Km square:-   NY4917
10Km square:-   NY41


photograph
BTH95.jpg (taken 11.8.2010)  
photograph
BTH72.jpg  ... just a corner of this minimalist feature ...
(taken 11.8.2010)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 13 7) 
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.
"Site of Chapel"
and a circular earthwork? 

evidence:-   site plan:- Historical Monuments 1936
placename:-  Towtop Kirk
source data:-   Site plan, uncoloured lithograph, Bampton Towtop Kirk, Cawdale, Bampton, Westmorland, scale about 1 to 1200, published by Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, London, 1936.
image  click to enlarge
HMW026.jpg
On p.33 of the Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Westmorland. 
printed, top  "BAMPTON TOWTOP KIRK"
RCHME no. Wmd, Bampton 73 
item:-  Armitt Library : A745.26
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