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Waverbridge School
locality:-   Waverbridge
civil parish:-   Dundraw (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
locality type:-   school (ex) 
coordinates:-   NY22184911
1Km square:-   NY2249
10Km square:-   NY24


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BNO17.jpg  Inscription on the porch gable:-
"TRAIN UP A CHILD IN / THE WAY HE SHOULD GO / &WHEN HE IS OLD HE WILL NOT / DEPART FROM IT. A.D. 1844." (taken 11.4.2007)  Proverbs 22.6
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BNO16.jpg (taken 11.4.2007)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 28 8) 
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"

notes:-  
Built by Charles Ray of Lesson Hall, 1844; closed 1970.

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