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| village hall, Kaber | ||
| locality:- | Kaber | |
| civil parish:- | Kaber (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | village hall | |
| locality type:- | school (ex) | |
| coordinates:- | NY79731156 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY7911 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY71 | |
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 BRX44.jpg (taken 20.11.2009)  BRZ62.jpg The school privies. (taken 22.1.2010) |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 23 8) |
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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. "Endowed School" |
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| evidence:- | probably old text:- Gents Mag |
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| source data:- | Magazine, The Gentleman's Magazine or Monthly Intelligencer or
Historical Chronicle, published by Edward Cave under the
pseudonym Sylvanus Urban, and by other publishers, London,
monthly from 1731 to 1922. goto sourceGentleman's Magazine 1823 part 2 p.324 "KABER, in the parish of Kirkby Stephen, founded by Thomas Waller, about the year 1680, and endowed by him with 133l. And in 1727 Miles Munkhouse gave 5l.; and in 1744 George Petty of Kalver gave 20l. for the benefit of this School." |
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 BRX46.jpg Plaque:- "ANTHONY MORLAND / YEOMAN OF ROOKBY / LEFT FIFTY POUNDS TO THIS SCHOOL / WITH WHICH A FIELD / CALLED SANDWATH WAS PURCHASED / THE YEARLY INCOME / OF WHICH IS TO BE PAID TO THE / MASTER THEREOF / YEARLY FOREVER / MARCH 7TH. 1793 / THIS STONE WAS ERECTED BY / JOHN BRUNSKILL HIS NEPHEW." (taken 20.11.2009)  BRX45.jpg Plaque:- "THIS SCHOOL REBUILT / BY THE LANDOWNERS IN / THE TOWNSHIP OF KABER / 1862 / TRUSTEES: JOHN MORLAND / JOSEPH DENT" (taken 20.11.2009) |
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