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| Cockpit Hill, Kirkby Lonsdale | ||
| Cockpit Hill | ||
| Kirkby Lonsdale Motte | ||
| locality:- | Cockpit Hill | |
| locality:- | Kirkby Lonsdale | |
| civil parish:- | Kirkby Lonsdale (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | motte and bailey | |
| locality type:- | castle | |
| locality type:- | cock pit (?) | |
| coordinates:- | SD61087898 | |
| 1Km square:- | SD6178 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD67 | |
| SummaryText:- | No bailey | |
| references:- | Jackson 1990 |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 47 8) placename:- Cockpit Hill |
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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 text:- Pennant 1773 |
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| source data:- | Book, A Tour from Downing to Alston Moor, 1773, by Thomas
Pennant, published by Edward Harding, 98 Pall Mall, London, 1801. goto sourcePennant's Tour 1773, page 118 "..." "On the side of the walk [from Kirkby Lonsdale church] is an exploratory mount, surrounded by a ditch, judiciously placed, as it commands a distant view up the vale now called Lonsdale, ..." |
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| hearsay:- |
Damaged; the summit is dished and might have been used as a cock pit |
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| notes:- |
motte |
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| Perriam, D R &Robinson, J: 1998: Medieval Fortified Buildings of Cumbria: CWAAS::
ISBN 1 873124 23 6 |
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