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Clappersgate, Appleby
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Clappersgate
locality:-   Appleby
civil parish:-   Appleby-in-Westmorland (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   locality
coordinates:-   NY684207 (etc, guess) 
1Km square:-   NY6820
10Km square:-   NY61
references:-   Jefferys 1770

evidence:-   old map:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd) 
placename:-  Clapersgate
source data:-   Map, 4 sheets, The County of Westmoreland, scale 1 inch to 1 mile, surveyed 1768, and engraved and published by Thomas Jefferys, London, 1770.
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"Clapersgate"
blocks, labelled in upright lowercase text; settlement; town?, suburb of Appleby 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland

evidence:-   old text:- Pennant 1773
placename:-  Clippergate
source data:-   Book, A Tour from Downing to Alston Moor, 1773, by Thomas Pennant, published by Edward Harding, 98 Pall Mall, London, 1801.
image PEN6p148, button  goto source
Pennant's Tour 1773, page 148  "I left Appleby, repassed the bridge, and went through the village of Clippergate, not far from its foot. ..."

evidence:-   old map:- Cary 1789 (edn 1805) 
placename:-  Clapersgate
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Westmoreland, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Cary, London, 1789; edition 1805.
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"Clapersgate"
blocks, no church symbol, labelled in upright lowercase; village 
item:-  JandMN : 129
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