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| Langwathby Moor, Langwathby | ||
| Langwathby Moor | ||
| civil parish:- | Langwathby (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | moor | |
| coordinates:- | NY58643279 (etc) | |
| 1Km square:- | NY5832 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY53 | |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 50 11) placename:- Langwathby Moor |
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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:- | old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 50) placename:- Longwathby Moor |
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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:- | old text:- Gents Mag placename:- Langonby Moor item:- rebellion, 1745; 1745 Rebellion |
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| source data:- | Magazine, The Gentleman's Magazine or Monthly Intelligencer or
Historical Chronicle, published by Edward Cave under the
pseudonym Sylvanus Urban, and by other publishers, London,
monthly from 1731 to 1922. goto sourceGentleman's Magazine 1746 p.62 "... The D. of Perth with about 110 men, the vanguard of the rebels, ... they set out [from Shap] early in the morning [15.12.1745], but not daring to venture the Penrith road, they cross'd the Eden at a village call'd Culgaith, and intended to have pursu'd their route for Scotland along the East of that river: but Penrith people having notice of their march, sent a detachment of between 2 and 300 men mounted and arm'd, who crossing the Eden at Langonby bridge, met the rebels on Langonby moor, who on some shot fired at them, thought fit to retreat, without disputing for a passage, by Temple Sowerby, being hotly pursu'd by the country people, from every side, and sometimes almost surrounded. ---" "They once made a stand upon a plain open piece of ground, but the country people who were mostly on foot and badly armed, did not care to come too near them, except where they had hedges, walls or rocky ground to secure them from the horse. When the rebels saw that the country would not fight them, except upon their own ground, they once more mov'd forward, and when it was almost dark, were greatly distressed, for the countrymen dividing into small companies, were near them on every side, discharging guns and huzzaing, which made them often vary their course: About 7 o'clock they came to Orton, ..." others report this as being on Lazonby Fell. |
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