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Newton Knott, Muncaster
Newton Knott
civil parish:-   Muncaster (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   hill
coordinates:-   SD094953
1Km square:-   SD0995
10Km square:-   SD09

evidence:-   old text:- Mackenzie 1776
placename:-  Newton Knot Hill
source data:-   Charts, and sailing directions, Nautical Descriptions of the West Coast of Great Britain, Bristol Channel to Cape Wrath, by Murdoch Mackenzie, published London, 1776.
image MK10P19, button  goto source
Page 19:-  "To sail into Ravinglas Harbour; ... anchor half a cable's-length from the W. end of the town, or off the perch, in the meeting of the three rivers. When the buoy in the entry bears E. it is also in a line with the S. shoulder of Newton-knot Hill, which is a small hill, half a mile S. of Ravinglas, on which some corn fields and furz-bushes may be seen."

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