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Kirkland, Kendal
Kirkland
locality:-   Kendal
civil parish:-   Kendal (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
locality type:-   area
coordinates:-   SD514922 (etc) 
1Km square:-   SD5192
10Km square:-   SD59

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 38 8) 
placename:-  Kirkland
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.

evidence:-   old text:- Brathwaite 1638
placename:-  Kirkland
source data:-   Poem, Drunken Barbaby's Four Journeys to the North of England, by Richard Brathwaite, 1638, published 1716-1818 at least.
image BBY1p129, button  goto source
Page 129:-  "..."
"Now to Kirkland, truly by it"
"May that Say be verified:"
"'Far from God, but near the Temple,"
"Tho' their Pastor gave Example,"
"They are such a kind of Vermin,"
"Pipe they'd rather hear than Sermon."

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

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