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| Gallows Howe, Troutbeck | ||
| Gallows Howe | ||
| locality:- | Town Head | |
| locality:- | Troutbeck | |
| civil parish:- | Lakes (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | hill | |
| locality type:- | gallows (site) | |
| coordinates:- | NY413037 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY4103 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY40 | |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series placename:- Gallow Howe |
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| 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. "Gallow Howe" |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Martineau 1855 |
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| source data:- | Guide book, A Complete Guide to the English Lakes, by Harriet
Martineau, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland,
and by Whittaker and Co, London, 1855; published 1855-76. goto sourcePage 34:- "Troutbeck ... After Romans and Saxons were gone, the valley was a great park, and the inhabitants were virtually serfs, in danger of the gallows, (which had a hill to itself, named after it to this day) at the will and pleasure of the one great man. ..." |
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