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spa, Church Brough
locality:-   Church Brough
locality:-   Brough
civil parish:-   Brough (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   spa
locality type:-   spring
locality type:-   well
coordinates:-   NY791141 (approx) 
1Km square:-   NY7914
10Km square:-   NY71
references:-   Simpson 1746

evidence:-   descriptive text:- Simpson 1746
placename:-  Upper Brough
placename:-  Church Brough
source data:-   Atlas, three volumes of maps and descriptive text published as 'The Agreeable Historian, or the Compleat English Traveller ...', by Samuel Simpson, 1746.
image SMP3P7, button  goto source
Page 1025:-  "... Church Brough, ... Near the Bridge a Spaw-well was lately discovered. ..."

evidence:-   descriptive text:- Lowther 1780s-90s
source data:-   Scrapbook, 4 volumes, of descriptive texts, maps, and prints of views and coats of arms, for Westmorland and Cumberland, assembled by a member of the Lowther Family, late 18th early 19th century.
Text with a print, engraving, Brough Castle, drawn by Samuel Hooper, engraved by Sparrow, 1775:-  "... CAMDEN describing this country [round Brough] says, '... Church-Brough, where the Church standeth, ... near the Bridge is a Spaw-well, which hath not long been discovered. ..."

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