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canal basin, Carlisle
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site name:-   Carlisle Canal
locality:-   Carlisle
civil parish:-   Carlisle (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   canal basin
coordinates:-   NY39055601 (guess) 
1Km square:-   NY3956
10Km square:-   NY35

evidence:-   old drawing:- 
placename:-  Canal Basin
item:-  timbership
source data:-   Drawing, Carlisle Basin, Carlisle, Cumberland, by John Wilson Carmichael, 1835.
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View of Carlisle Basin with three pairs of workmen cutting timber beside it in foreground. To right of middle distance two tall ships are moored at the basin's edge. The city of Carlisle lies in the background. Distant hills rise beyond. 
initialled &dated at bottom left:-  "No 1 Canal Basin, Carlisle JWC 1835"
item:-  Tullie House Museum : 1968.16.1
Image © Tullie House Museum

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