 Old Cumbria Gazetteer
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| Wythop Old Church, Wythop | ||
| Wythop Old Church | ||
| locality:- | Wythop Woods | |
| locality:- | Wythop | |
| locality:- | Kelswick | |
| civil parish:- | Wythop (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | church (ruin) | |
| coordinates:- | NY19372909 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY1929 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY12 | |
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|  BOQ83.jpg (taken 13.2.2008)  BOQ84.jpg (taken 13.2.2008) | ||
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 55 7) | |
| 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. "Church (Per Curacy)" | |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd) | |
| source data:- | Map, hand coloured engraving, 3x2 sheets, The County of Cumberland, scale about 1
                  inch to 1 mile, by Thomas Donald, engraved and published by Joseph Hodskinson, 29
                  Arundel Street, Strand, London, 1774.  D4NY12NE.jpg "Chap." church item:- Carlisle Library : Map 2 Image © Carlisle Library | |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Clarke 1787 | |
| source data:- | Guide book, A Survey of the Lakes of Cumberland, Westmorland, 
                  and Lancashire, written and published by James Clarke, Penrith, 
                  Cumberland, and in London etc, 1787; published 1787-93.  goto source Page 93:- "... in the lord's woods [Wythop Woods]; there is here a small chapel of ease under Brigham, which is worth about L.25 per annum." | |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Garnett 1850s-60s H | |
| source data:- | Map of the English Lakes, in Cumberland, Westmorland and 
                  Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by John 
                  Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, 1850s-60s.  GAR2NY12.jpg cross, a church item:- JandMN : 82.1 Image © see bottom of page | |
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|  BOQ86.jpg Plaque, or gravestone:- "SITE OF / WYTHOP OLD CHURCH" (taken 13.2.2008) | ||
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|  BOQ85.jpg Copy of a faded picture taken 1865 when the church was demolished. (taken 13.2.2008) | ||
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| notes:- | This is thought to date back to the 14th or 15th century. A lintel in the new church
                  records the rebuilding of this one in 1673. There was a general restoration in 1842,
                  when the floor was flagged. Having no bellcote it is said the bell was hung in a nearby
                  tree.The old chapel was pulled down in 1865. | |
| : : church leaflet (for St Margaret, Wythop) | ||
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