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almshouses, Cockermouth
Street:-   Kirkgate
locality:-   Cockermouth
civil parish:-   Cockermouth (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   almshouse
1Km square:-   NY1230 (?) 
10Km square:-   NY13
references:-   Farington 1816
evidence:-   old text:- Farington 1816
source data:-   Descriptive text:- 
... 
In the year 1760, the Rev. Thomas Leathes gave a house in Kirkgate, for the residence of six poor widows, or unmarried women, above sixty years of age, and left the interest of one hundred pounds as an endowment, to which his daughter added fifty pounds. 
item:-  Armitt Library : A6666.23
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