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Guards, Kirkandrews
Guards Farm
Guards
locality:-   Debatable Land
civil parish:-   Kirkandrews (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   NY33196674
1Km square:-   NY3366
10Km square:-   NY36

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 9A 12) 
placename:-  Guards
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.

evidence:-   old map:- Burghley 1590 (facsimile) 
placename:-  Gardes, Ye
source data:-   Facsimile map, A Platt of the Opposete Border of Scotland to ye West Marches of England, parts of Cumberland and Scotland including the Debateable Land, from a manuscript drawn for William Cecil, Lord Burghley, about 1590, published by R B Armstrong, 1897.
courtesy of the National Library of Scotland
image
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"ye Gardes"
circle, tower 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : MS6113 f.267
Image © National Library of Scotland

evidence:-   old map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd) 
placename:-  Guards
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, 3x2 sheets, The County of Cumberland, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, by Thomas Donald, engraved and published by Joseph Hodskinson, 29 Arundel Street, Strand, London, 1774.
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"Guards"
block or blocks, labelled in lowercase; a hamlet or just a house 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library

notes:-  
supposed site of tower or early stone house

Perriam, D R &Robinson, J: 1998: Medieval Fortified Buildings of Cumbria: CWAAS:: ISBN 1 873124 23 6

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