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Goose Holme, Kendal
Goose Holme
locality:-   Kendal
civil parish:-   Kendal (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   locality
locality type:-   tenter ground (ex) 
coordinates:-   SD51969281 (etc) 
1Km square:-   SD5192
10Km square:-   SD59
SummaryText:-   Once an island between two braids of the river


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BYC53.jpg (taken 11.4.2013)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 38 8) 
placename:-  Goose Holme
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.
"Goose Holme (Tenter Ground)"

evidence:-   old map:- Jefferys 1770
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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island 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Images © National Library of Scotland

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