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Cartmel Race Course, Cartmel
Cartmel Race Course
locality:-   Cartmel
civil parish:-   Lower Allithwaite (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   race course
coordinates:-   SD376790
1Km square:-   SD3779
10Km square:-   SD37


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BLU28.jpg (taken 7.4.2006)  
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BTG21.jpg (taken 30.7.2010)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Lan 17 3) 
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.


photograph
BUQ78.jpg (taken 1.6.2011)  


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BTG20.jpg (taken 30.7.2010)  

notes:-  
Tradition has it that the monks started the races here as a Whitsun recreation.

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