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Kelsoe Kirk, St Bees
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Kelsoe Kirk
locality:-   St Bees Head
civil parish:-   St Bees (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
1Km square:-   NX9413 (guess) 
10Km square:-   NX91
references:-   Gents Mag 1731

evidence:-   old text:- Gents Mag
source data:-   Magazine, The Gentleman's Magazine or Monthly Intelligencer or Historical Chronicle, published by Edward Cave under the pseudonym Sylvanus Urban, and by other publishers, London, monthly from 1731 to 1922.
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Gentleman's Magazine 1831 part 1 p.300  "... Proceeding along the summit of Preston Isle [St Bees Head], or, as it is now called, Preston Quarter, ... Nature has been here exerting herself in the formation of the rocks into the rude semblance of the ruins of a church, called Kelsoe Kirk. As-"

evidence:-   old text:- Gents Mag 1831
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Gentleman's Magazine 1831 part 1 p.301  "[As]ssisted by the ebon tints of evening, and the roaring of the ocean, the fanciful may picture to himself worshippers bending amid the massy ruins, though here "the sound of the church going bell" was never heard. ..."

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