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Sedgwick House, Swarthmoor
Sedgwick House
Sedgwick Cottage
Swarthmoor Post Office
locality:-   Swarthmoor
civil parish:-   Pennington (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
locality type:-   post office
coordinates:-   SD27367722
1Km square:-   SD2777
10Km square:-   SD27


photograph
BMJ75.jpg (taken 11.7.2006)  

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John Bolton, geologist, returned to Furness in 1851 to live here, he named the house Sedgwick Cottage.

Smith, Alan (ed): 2001: Rock Men, The: Cumberland Geological Society (Keswick, Cumbria):: ISBN 0 9541102 0 X

notes:-  
There is a bronze age quern in the garden wall, and some bits of fossilised tree.

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