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| Cowbrow, Lupton | ||
| Cowbrow | ||
| Cow Brow | ||
| locality:- | Lupton | |
| civil parish:- | Lupton (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | locality | |
| locality type:- | road (?) | |
| coordinates:- | SD55248133 (etc) | |
| 1Km square:- | SD5581 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD58 | |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 47 2) placename:- Cowbrow |
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| 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. |
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| evidence:- | perhaps old text:- Brathwaite 1638 placename:- Cowbrow |
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| source data:- | Poem, Drunken Barbaby's Four Journeys to the North of England,
by Richard Brathwaite, 1638, published 1716-1818 at least. goto sourcePage 29:- "..." "Thence to Cowbrow, Truth I'll tell ye," "Mine Hostess had a supple Belly," "Body plump, and Count'nance chearful," "Reeling Pace (a Welcome fearful)" "Like a drunken Hag she stumbled," "Till she on her Buttocks tumbled." |
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| evidence:- | probably descriptive text:- West 1778 (11th edn 1821) |
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| 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. goto source Tour to the Caves in the West Riding of Yorkshire, late 18th century Page 239:- "..." "About six o'clock, one morning in June, we set off from Kendal, and, after travelling about a dozen miles along a good turnpike-road, over Endmoor and Crowbrow, we arrived at Kirkby-Lonsdale soon after eight." |
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