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| Nelson Thomlinson School, Wigton | ||
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| Nelson Thomlinson School | ||
| Street:- | Longmoor Lane | |
| locality:- | Wigton | |
| civil parish:- | Wigton (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | school | |
| locality type:- | library | |
| coordinates:- | NY25844802 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY2548 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY24 | |
| references:- | Listed Buildings 2010 |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 29 6) placename:- Floshfield |
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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:- | perhaps old text:- Camden 1789 (Gough Additions) |
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| 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. goto sourcePage 186:- "..." "... an hospital founded 1725 by John Thomlinson, M.A. rector of Rothbury, c. Northumberland, ... A school was also established by the procurement of the said founder and his brother." |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "LIBRARY BLOCK, NELSON THOMLINSON SCHOOL / / LONGMOOR LANE / WIGTON / ALLERDALE / CUMBRIA / II / 72033 / NY2584348027" |
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