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Castlesteads, Yanwath etc
Castlesteads
locality:-   Yanwath Wood
civil parish:-   Yanwath and Eamont Bridge (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   british settlement
locality type:-   settlement
locality type:-   earthwork
coordinates:-   NY51852520
1Km square:-   NY5125
10Km square:-   NY52
evidence:-   old text:- Camden 1789 (Gough Additions) 
placename:-  Castle Steads
source data:-   Book, Britannia, or A Chorographical Description of the Flourishing Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, by William Camden, 1586, translated from the 1607 Latin edition by Richard Gough, published London, 1789.
image CAM2P162, button  goto source
Page 162:-  "..."
"About a mile from Yanwath hall at the end of the wood opposite Lowther hall is an antient round fortification called Castle steads."
evidence:-   site plan:- Historical Monuments 1936
placename:-  Castlesteads
source data:-   Site plan, uncoloured lithograph, Castlesteads Yanwath Wood, Yanwath and Eamont Bridge, Westmorland, scale about 1 to 1300, published by Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, London, 1936.
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On p.254 of the Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Westmorland. 
printed, top  "CASTLESTEADS / YANWATH WOOD"
RCHME no. Wmd, Yanwath and Eamont Bridge 15 
item:-  Armitt Library : A745.150
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