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| church, Gowbarrow | ||
| Gowbarrow chapel | ||
| locality:- | Knotts | |
| locality:- | Gowbarrow | |
| civil parish:- | Matterdale (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | church | |
| coordinates:- | NY435214 (guess) | |
| 1Km square:- | NY4321 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY42 | |
| references:- | Clarke 1787 |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Clarke 1787 |
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| source data:- | Guide book, A Survey of the Lakes of Cumberland, Westmorland,
and Lancashire, written and published by James Clarke, Penrith,
Cumberland, and in London etc, 1787; published 1787-93. goto sourcePage 26:- "..." "... I am in possession of an admission of Anthony Rumney as tenant of two tenements at Gowbarrow-Hall, and part of a tenement at Old Church: this admission farther sets forth, that the parochial chapel and the burying-ground was then at Gowbarrow-Hall; ... dated in 1474, ..." "The chapel at Gowbarrow being destroyed by the Scots, this place was without any place of worship till some years afterwards, ..." |
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