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| Kendal: Highgate | ||
| Highgate | ||
| locality:- | Kendal | |
| civil parish:- | Kendal (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | street | |
| coordinates:- | SD51479248 (etc) | |
| 1Km square:- | SD5192 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD59 | |
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 BJS48.jpg Highgate, town hall, etc, from south. (taken 14.8.2005) |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 38 8) placename:- Highgate |
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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:- | old map:- Speed 1611 placename:- High Gate |
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| source data:- | Map, hand coloured engraving, The Countie Westmorland and
Kendale the Cheif Towne, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by
John Speed, 1610, published by George Humble, Popes Head Alley,
London, 1611-12. click to enlargeSP14Mk.jpg "3 High gate" street of houses item:- Armitt Library : 2008.14.5 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | hearth tax returns:- Hearth Tax 1675 placename:- Highgate |
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| source data:- | Records, hearth tax survey returns, Westmorland, 1674/75. "Highgate" in "Kendal parish" |
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| evidence:- | hearth tax returns:- Hearth Tax 1670 placename:- High Gate in Kendall |
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| source data:- | Records, hearth tax returns, exchequer duplicates, Westmorland,
1670. "High Gate in Kendall" |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Jefferys 1770 placename:- High Gate |
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| source data:- | Map, 4 sheets, The County of Westmoreland, scale 1 inch to 1
mile, surveyed 1768, and engraved and published by Thomas
Jefferys, London, 1770. J55192N.jpg  J55192M.jpg  J55192L.jpg "HIGH GATE" street item:- National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47 Images © National Library of Scotland |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Capper 1808 |
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| source data:- | Gazetteer, A Topographical Dictionary of the United Kingdom,
compiled by Benjamin Pitts Capper, published by Richard
Phillips, Bridge Street, Blackfriars, London, 1808; published
1808-29. goto source"[Kendal: Stramongate] ... joins another principal street, being about one mile long, and of a spacious breadth. ..." |
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