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| Old Parsonage, Dent | ||
| Old Parsonage | ||
| locality:- | Dent | |
| civil parish:- | Dent (formerly Yorkshire) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | buildings | |
| coordinates:- | SD70498693 | |
| 1Km square:- | SD7086 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD78 | |
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 BMX04.jpg (taken 20.10.2006)  BMX05.jpg Date stone over the door:- "H 1673 / T M" (taken 20.10.2006) |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:- Old Parsonage placename:- Old Vicarage item:- date stone (1673) |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "THE OLD VICARAGE AND THE OLD PARSONAGE / / VILLAGE GREEN / DENT / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 484432 / SD7048986923" |
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| evidence:- | old print:- Thompson 1894 placename:- Dent Vicarage |
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| source data:- | Print, engraving, Dent Vicarage, Dent, Yorkshire, by S A Symington, published by Richard
Jackson, Commercial Street, Leeds, Yorkshire, 1894. click to enlargeTHP131.jpg On p.110 of An Illustrated Guide to Sedbergh, Garsdale, and Dent, by W Thompson. printed at lower centre:- "S A Symington" item:- Armitt Library : A1612.B31 Image © see bottom of page |
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Adam Sedgwick, geologist, was born here, 1785. |
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| A plaque on the wall reads:- |
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| "ADAM SEDGWICK ONE OF THE FOUNDERS OF BRITISH GEOLOGY WAS BORN HERE IN THE OLD PARSONAGE
IN 1785" |
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| Smith, Alan (ed): 2001: Rock Men, The: Cumberland Geological Society (Keswick, Cumbria)::
ISBN 0 9541102 0 X Speakman, Colin: 1982: Adam Sedgwick: Broadoak Press & Geological Sociaety of London &Trinity College, Cambridge:: ISBN 0 906716 01 2 |
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| personal | ||
| person:- | geologist : Sedgwick, Adam |
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| place:- | birthplace | |
| date:- | 1785 |
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