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market cross, Dalston
once?
locality:-   Dalston
civil parish:-   Dalston (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   market cross (gone?) 
locality type:-   cross (gone?) 
coordinates:-   NY369503 (guess) 
1Km square:-   NY3650
10Km square:-   NY35

evidence:-   old text:- Camden 1789 (Gough Additions) 
item:-  coat of arms
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.
image CAM2P193, button  goto source
Page 193:-  "..."
"Though Dalston is no market town, it has a very large cross, which seems to have been built at the expence of the neighbouring gentry, as their arms on it shew. The three kites heads, the arms of bishop Kite 1520-1537, refer the erecting of it to his time."

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