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Wetheral Tower, Wetheral
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Wetheral Tower
locality:-   Wetheral
civil parish:-   Wetheral (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   tower
locality type:-   castle (?) 
coordinates:-   NY46715329 (estimated) 
1Km square:-   NY4653
10Km square:-   NY45

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 24 10) 
placename:-  Wetheral Tower
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.
"Wetheral Tower"

evidence:-   descriptive text:- Simpson 1746
placename:-  Weatheral Tower
item:-  cavehermit's cave
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 SMP4P191, button  goto source
"... On the other Side of the River [from Corby Castle], over-against the House, are the remains of an old castle, which is called Weatherel-Tower, under which is an Hermit's Cave. ..."

hearsay:-  
The tower was demolished, bacause it was unsafe, within living memory.

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