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maypole, Temple Sowerby
locality:-   Temple Sowerby
civil parish:-   Temple Sowerby (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   maypole
coordinates:-   NY61202700
1Km square:-   NY6127
10Km square:-   NY62


photograph
BWF18.jpg (taken 6.4.2012)  
photograph
BNT13.jpg  Weathervane on the maypole.
(taken 30.5.2007)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 4 16) 
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.
"Maypole"

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Maypole to South of the Cedars
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"MAYPOLE TO SOUTH OF THE CEDARS / / A66 / TEMPLE SOWERBY / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 424148 / NY6118727020"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Maypole, possibly on site of earlier cross. Mentioned in 1817 enclosure awards. 4 steps up, of millstone grit blocks. Timber upright is C20 replacement; wrought-iron weathervane is dated 1891."

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