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| St Helen's Tannery, Cockermouth | ||
| St Helen's Tannery | ||
| locality:- | Cockermouth | |
| civil parish:- | Cockermouth (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | tanyard | |
| coordinates:- | NY12963084 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY1230 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY13 | |
| references:- | OS County Series |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 54 4) placename:- St Helen's Tannery |
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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 placename:- St Helens Tannery |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "ST HELENS TANNERY (EASTERN BUILDING) / / ST HELENS STREET / COCKERMOUTH / ALLERDALE / CUMBRIA / II / 71744 / NY1296330840" |
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| hearsay:- |
There is said to have been a tannery here before 1440. |
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| In later times there were two buildings on the site. One was a brick building, used
as a stable, 'restored' in 1970; the other was used as barns for farming, destroyed
by a fire in 1975. |
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