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High Barn, Longsleddale
High Barn
locality:-   Swinklebank (?) 
civil parish:-   Longsleddale (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings (disused) 
coordinates:-   NY49130473
1Km square:-   NY4904
10Km square:-   NY40


photograph
BVK64.jpg (taken 30.9.2011)  
photograph
BVK63.jpg (taken 30.9.2011)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 27 7) 
placename:-  High Barn
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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C5E006.jpg
"High Barn"

evidence:-   old map:- Kendal Corn Rent Act 1836
placename:-  High Barn
source data:-   Tithe map, Plan of part of the Township of Longsleddale, Westmorland, made regarding the Kendal Corn Rent Act, ie a tithe award map, scale about 20 inches to 1 mile, Kendal, Westmorland, 1836.

courtesy of Mark Cropper
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KCR205.jpg
Plan of part of the Township of Longsleddale, Westmorland, made regarding the Kendal Corn Rent Act, ie a tithe award map, scale about 20 inches to 1 mile, Kendal, Westmorland, 1836.  "High Barn"
item:-  private collection : 370
Image © see bottom of page

 old parish registers (formerly )

evidence:-   map:- OS Six Inch (1956) 
placename:-  High Barn
source data:-   Map series, various editions with the national grid, scale about 6 inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, scale 1 to 10560 from 1950s to 1960s, then 1 to 10000 from 1960s to 2000s, superseded by print on demand from digital data.
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SINY4904.jpg
"High Barn"

copy photo:-  
These scenes are probably in a field at High Barn, harvest time for the Fishwicks of Tills Hole, probably 1940s and 1950s.

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CDP98.jpg  Mowing oats, Bill Fishwick driving, Tom working the rake.
 courtesy of Nial Barnes
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CDQ16.jpg  Harvest, oats, 1940s-50s.
 courtesy of Nial Barnes
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CDQ01.jpg  Tying sheaves of oats.
 courtesy of Nial Barnes

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