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Crackenthorpe
civil parish:-   Crackenthorpe (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   NY661221
1Km square:-   NY6622
10Km square:-   NY62
evidence:-   old map:- Saxton 1579
placename:-  Crakenthorp
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmorlandiae et Cumberlandiae Comitatus ie Westmorland and Cumberland, scale about 5 miles to 1 inch, by Christopher Saxton, London, engraved by Augustinus Ryther, 1576, published 1579-1645.
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Building, symbol for a hamlet, which may or may not have a nucleus.  "Crakenthorp"
item:-  private collection : 2
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evidence:-   old map:- Speed 1611 (Wmd) 
placename:-  Crakenthorp
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, The Countie Westmorland and Kendale the Cheif Towne, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Speed, 1610, published by George Humble, Popes Head Alley, London, 1611-12.
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"Crakenthorp"
circle, tower 
item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.14.5
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evidence:-   old map:- Jansson 1646
placename:-  Crakenthorp
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Cumbria and Westmoria, ie Cumberland and Westmorland, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Jansson, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1646.
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"Crakenthorp"
Buildings and tower. 
item:-  JandMN : 88
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evidence:-   old map:- Morden 1695 (Wmd) 
placename:-  Crakenthorp
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmorland, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by Robert Morden, published by Abel Swale, the Unicorn, St Paul's Churchyard, Awnsham, and John Churchill, the Black Swan, Paternoster Row, London, 1695.
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"Crakenthorp"
Circle, building and tower. 
item:-  JandMN : 24
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evidence:-   presumably old map:- Simpson 1746 map (Wmd) 
placename:-  Crackenth
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Westmorland, scale about 8 miles to 1 inch, printed by R Walker, Fleet Lane, London, 1746.
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"Crackenth"
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2007.38.59
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evidence:-   old map:- Bowen and Kitchin 1760
placename:-  Crakenthorp
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, A New Map of the Counties of Cumberland and Westmoreland Divided into their Respective Wards, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Emanuel Bowen and Thomas Kitchin et al, published by T Bowles, Robert Sayer, and John Bowles, London, 1760.
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"Crakenthorp"
circle, tower 
item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.14.10
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evidence:-   old map:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd) 
placename:-  Crackenthorp
source data:-   Map, 4 sheets, The County of Westmoreland, scale 1 inch to 1 mile, surveyed 1768, and engraved and published by Thomas Jefferys, London, 1770.
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"Crackenthorp"
blocks, labelled in upright lowercase text; settlement; town? 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
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evidence:-   old text:- Pennant 1773
placename:-  Crakenthorpe
item:-  crake; crow; placename, Crackenthorpe
source data:-   Book, A Tour from Downing to Alston Moor, 1773, by Thomas Pennant, published by Edward Harding, 98 Pall Mall, London, 1801.
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Pennant's Tour 1773, page 148  "... I rode through Crakenthorpe, or the Village of Crows, in the northern dialect Crakes, most likely from there having been here a rookery. ..."
evidence:-   old map:- Cary 1789 (edn 1805) 
placename:-  Crackenthorp
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Westmoreland, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Cary, London, 1789; edition 1805.
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"Crackenthorp"
block/s, labelled in italic lowercase; house, or hamlet 
item:-  JandMN : 129
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evidence:-   road book:- Cary 1798 (2nd edn 1802) 
placename:-  Crackenthorpe
source data:-   Road book, itineraries, Cary's New Itinerary, by John Cary, 181 Strand, London, 2nd edn 1802.
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page 281-282  "Crackenthorpe - New Inn"
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page 285-286  "INNS. ... Crackenthorpe, New Inn. ..."
item:-  JandMN : 228.1
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evidence:-   old map:- Cooke 1802
placename:-  Crackenthorp
source data:-   Map, Westmoreland ie Westmorland, scale about 12 miles to 1 inch, by George Cooke, 1802, published by Sherwood, Jones and Co, Paternoster Road, London, 1824.
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"Crackenthorp"
blocks, italic lowercase text, village, hamlet, locality 
item:-  Hampshire Museums : FA2000.62.4
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evidence:-   old map:- Laurie and Whittle 1806
placename:-  Crackenthorpe
source data:-   Road map, Continuation of the Roads to Glasgow and Edinburgh, scale about 10 miles to 1 inch, by Nathaniel Coltman? 1806, published by Robert H Laurie, 53 Fleet Street, London, 1834.
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"Crackenthorpe 171¾"
village or other place; distance from London, should be 271¾; travellers supplied with post horses or carriages 
item:-  private collection : 18.21
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evidence:-   old map:- Wallis 1810 (Wmd) 
placename:-  Crackenthorp
source data:-   Road map, Westmoreland, scale about 19 miles to 1 inch, by James Wallis, 77 Berwick Street, Soho, 1810, published by W Lewis, Finch Lane, London, 1835?
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"Crackenthorp"
village, hamlet, house, ... 
item:-  JandMN : 63
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evidence:-   old map:- Hall 1820 (Wmd) 
placename:-  Crackenthorp
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmoreland ie Westmorland, scale about 14.5 miles to 1 inch, by Sidney Hall, London, 1820, published by Samuel Leigh, 18 Strand, London, 1820-31.
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"Crackenthorp"
circle, italic lowercase text; settlement 
item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.14.58
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evidence:-   old map:- Ford 1839 map
placename:-  Crackenthorpe
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Map of the Lake District of Cumberland, Westmoreland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by Charles Thurnam, Carlisle, and by R Groombridge, 5 Paternoster Row, London, 3rd edn 1843.
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"Crackenthorpe"
item:-  JandMN : 100.1
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