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| Bardsea Monument, Bardsea | ||
| Bardsea Monument | ||
| locality:- | Bardsea Park | |
| locality:- | Ulverston Golf Club | |
| locality:- | Bardsea | |
| civil parish:- | Urswick (formerly Lancashire) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | monument | |
| coordinates:- | SD29737513 | |
| 1Km square:- | SD2975 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD27 | |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Lan 16 12) placename:- Bardsea Monument |
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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. |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "BARDSEA MONUMENT IN GROUNDS OF ULVERSTON GOLF CLUB / / / PENNINGTON / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 75881 / SD2973575132" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "Monument. 1792. For W. Braddyll. Limestone rubble with some ashlar and brick. Triangular plan structure on round base has diagonal buttresses. Corbelled parapet with flat coping and finials, cupola with lantern. Each face has 4-centred relieving arch of ashlar and brick with round-headed niche containing urn, that to north-west missing, base inscribed: "POSUIT WB". Urns to other sides record Christopher Wilson and Sarah, John and Jane Gale, relations of William Braddyll; that to north-east also records erection of monument. A prominent landmark on the Furness peninsula." |
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