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Lords' Dub, Brigflatts
Lords' Dub
site name:-   Rawthey, River
locality:-   Brigflatts
civil parish:-   Sedbergh (formerly Yorkshire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   river
locality type:-   pool
locality type:-   swimming hole
coordinates:-   SD63909112
1Km square:-   SD6391
10Km square:-   SD69


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CFV51.jpg (taken 24.2.2017)  
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CFV52.jpg (taken 24.2.2017)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Yrk 63 3) 
placename:-  Lords' Dub
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.
"Lords' Dub"

evidence:-   old print:- Thompson 1894
placename:-  Lords' Dub
source data:-   Print, engraving, Lords' Dub, on the River Rawthey, Brigflatts, Sedbergh, Yorkshire, published by Richard Jackson, Commercial Street, Leeds, Yorkshire, 1894.
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"'We may now either return to the river, and, after a short walk, look at Lords' Dub - fatal oft heretofore to bathing schoolboys and others - ...'"
On p.95 of An Illustrated Guide to Sedbergh, Garsdale, and Dent, by W Thompson. 
item:-  Armitt Library : A1612.B25
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