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King Harry, Cumwhitton
King Harry
civil parish:-   Cumwhitton (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   locality
coordinates:-   NY541485 (etc) 
1Km square:-   NY5448
10Km square:-   NY54

evidence:-   old map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd) 
placename:-  King Harry
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.
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"King Harry"
hill hachuring; a hill or mountain 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library

hearsay:-  
This 'bleak, hilly, trackless waste' was where King Henry camped during a campaign in the north country. This was probably Henry VI after the Battle of Hexham, 1464, during the Wars of the Roses, in the gap in his reign when Edward IV was on the throne.

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