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Mayo Statue, Cockermouth
Mayo Statue
Street:-   Main Street
civil parish:-   Cockermouth (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   statue
coordinates:-   NY12023069
1Km square:-   NY1230
10Km square:-   NY13
references:-   Listed Buildings 2010


photograph
BYP48.jpg (taken 21.6.2013)  
photograph
BVY73.jpg  Plaque.
(taken 24.2.2012)  

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Mayo Statue
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"MAYO STATUE / / MAIN STREET / COCKERMOUTH / ALLERDALE / CUMBRIA / II / 71705 / NY1202130698"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Square granite plinth with cornice. Standing figure in white stone, of the sixth Earl of Mayo, died 1872, MP for Cockermouth 1857-67. By W &T Wills of London 1875."

hearsay:-  
Richard Southall Bourke, Earl of Mayo. Asassinated, 1872, by a convict on the Andaman Islands, when Bourke was Viceroy and Governor General of India.

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