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Bongate, Appleby
Bongate
Old Appleby
locality:-   Appleby
civil parish:-   Appleby-in-Westmorland (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   locality
locality type:-   street
coordinates:-   NY689199 (etc) 
1Km square:-   NY6819
10Km square:-   NY61

evidence:-   hearth tax returns:- Hearth Tax 1675
placename:-  Bondgate in the Barony of Appleby
source data:-   Records, hearth tax survey returns, Westmorland, 1674/75.
"Bondgate in the Barony of Appleby"

evidence:-   hearth tax returns:- Hearth Tax 1670
placename:-  Bond Gate
source data:-   Records, hearth tax returns, exchequer duplicates, Westmorland, 1670.
"Bond Gate"

evidence:-   old map:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd) 
placename:-  Bondgate
source data:-   Map, 4 sheets, The County of Westmoreland, scale 1 inch to 1 mile, surveyed 1768, and engraved and published by Thomas Jefferys, London, 1770.
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"Bondgate"
blocks, labelled in upright lowercase text; settlement; town?, suburb of Appleby 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland

evidence:-   old text:- Pennant 1773
placename:-  Bondgate
item:-  placename, Bongate
source data:-   Book, A Tour from Downing to Alston Moor, 1773, by Thomas Pennant, published by Edward Harding, 98 Pall Mall, London, 1801.
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Pennant's Tour 1773, page 138  "... I passed by the little church of Bondgate, so called from its having been in feudal times"
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Pennant's Tour 1773, page 139  "the seat of the villains or bondsmen attendant on the castle. ..."

evidence:-   old map:- Cary 1789 (edn 1805) 
placename:-  Bondgate
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Westmoreland, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Cary, London, 1789; edition 1805.
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"Bondgate"
blocks, no church symbol, labelled in upright lowercase; village 
item:-  JandMN : 129
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evidence:-   old text:- Capper 1808
placename:-  Bongate
item:-  population
source data:-   Gazetteer, A Topographical Dictionary of the United Kingdom, compiled by Benjamin Pitts Capper, published by Richard Phillips, Bridge Street, Blackfriars, London, 1808; published 1808-29.
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"..."
"BONGATE, a township to the parish of St. Michael's Appleby, East ward, Westmoreland, being part of the town of Appleby, distance 270 miles from London; containing 139 houses and 908 inhabitants."
"..."

evidence:-   old map:- Cooper 1808
placename:-  Bongate
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmoreland ie Westmorland, scale about 9 miles to 1 inch, by H Cooper, 1808, published by R Phillips, Bridge Street, Blackfriars, London, 1808.
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"Bongate"
circle; village or hamlet 
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2007.38.53
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evidence:-   old map:- Ford 1839 map
placename:-  Bongate
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Map of the Lake District of Cumberland, Westmoreland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by Charles Thurnam, Carlisle, and by R Groombridge, 5 Paternoster Row, London, 3rd edn 1843.
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"Bongate"
item:-  JandMN : 100.1
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 sundial, Bongate Cemetary

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