Clifton Wells, Clifton | ||
Clifton Wells | ||
civil parish:- | Clifton (formerly Westmorland) | |
county:- | Cumbria | |
locality type:- | spring | |
locality type:- | chalybeate spring | |
coordinates:- | NY52572591 | |
coordinates:- | NY52592592 | |
1Km square:- | NY5225 | |
10Km square:- | NY52 | |
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evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 7) placename:- Clifton Wells |
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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. "Clifton Wells (Chalybeate)" |
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evidence:- | presumably old text:- Camden 1789 (Gough Additions) |
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source data:- | Book, Britannia, or A Chorographical Description of the Flourishing Kingdoms of England,
Scotland, and Ireland, by William Camden, 1586, translated from the 1607 Latin edition
by Richard Gough, published London, 1789. goto source Page 162:- "..." "... Dr. Todd mentions a fountain in this parish near the banks of the Lowther of christalline limpid water, strongly impregnated with steel, and vitriol, of great benefit for scorbutic complaints." |
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