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Barrowgate, Borrowdale
Barrowgate
civil parish:-   Borrowdale (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   locality
1Km square:-   NY2620 (?) 
10Km square:-   NY22
references:-   West 1778

evidence:-   descriptive text:- West 1778 (11th edn 1821) 
placename:-  Barrowgate
source data:-   Guide book, A Guide to the Lakes, by Thomas West, published by William Pennington, Kendal, Cumbria once Westmorland, and in London, 1778 to 1821.
image WS21P203, button  goto source
Addendum; Mr Gray's Journal, 1769 
Page 203:-  "Oct. 3. [from Keswick] to Borrowdale; ... to Barrowgate, and a little further, passing a brook called Barrow-beck, we entered Borrowdale: ..."

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