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Kershope Head, Bewcastle
Kershope Head
locality:-   Kershope Forest
civil parish:-   Bewcastle (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   NY55508708
1Km square:-   NY5587
10Km square:-   NY58
SummaryText:-   also see Kershopehead

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 2 6) 
placename:-  Kershope Head
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.

evidence:-   old map:- Burghley 1590 (facsimile) 
placename:-  Kirsopheade
source data:-   Facsimile map, A Platt of the Opposete Border of Scotland to ye West Marches of England, parts of Cumberland and Scotland including the Debateable Land, from a manuscript drawn for William Cecil, Lord Burghley, about 1590, published by R B Armstrong, 1897.
courtesy of the National Library of Scotland
image
M048NY58.jpg
"kirsopheade"
written along the Kershope Burn 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : MS6113 f.267
Image © National Library of Scotland

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