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Spital, Kendal
Spital
St Leonard's Hospital
Street:-   Appleby Road
civil parish:-   Kendal (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   SD52669431
1Km square:-   SD5294
10Km square:-   SD59

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CEN37.jpg (taken 29.1.2016)  
evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 38 4) 
placename:-  Spital
placename:-  St Leonard's Hospital
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.
"Spital (Site of St. Leonard's Hospital)"
evidence:-   hearth tax returns:- Hearth Tax 1675
placename:-  Spittle
source data:-   Records, hearth tax survey returns, Westmorland, 1674/75.
"Spittle"
in  "Skalthwaite-rigge"
evidence:-   old map:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd) 
placename:-  Spittle
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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"Spittle"
circle, labelled in italic lowercase text; settlement, farm, house, or hamlet? 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland
evidence:-   old text:- Pennant 1773
placename:-  Spittle, The
item:-  leper
source data:-   Book, A Tour from Downing to Alston Moor, 1773, by Thomas Pennant, published by Edward Harding, 98 Pall Mall, London, 1801.
image PEN6p121, button  goto source
Pennant's Tour 1773, page 121  "I left Kendal, and not far from thence passed by the Spittle, once an hospital for lepers, valued at the dissolution at 11l. 4s. 3d. a year. ..."
evidence:-   old text:- Camden 1789 (Gough Additions) 
placename:-  Spittle
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 CAM2P152, button  goto source
Page 152:-  "... Here was an hospital founded for lepers by Henry II. valued at £.6. per annum, and still called the Spittle, ..."
evidence:-   old map:- Cary 1789 (edn 1805) 
placename:-  Spittle
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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"Spittle"
block/s, labelled in italic lowercase; house, or hamlet 
item:-  JandMN : 129
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evidence:-   old map:- Cooke 1802
placename:-  Spittle
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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"Spittle"
blocks, italic lowercase text, village, hamlet, locality 
item:-  Hampshire Museums : FA2000.62.4
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evidence:-   old map:- Wallis 1810 (Wmd) 
placename:-  Spittle
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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"Spittle"
village, hamlet, house, ... 
item:-  JandMN : 63
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evidence:-   old map:- Hall 1820 (Wmd) 
placename:-  Spittle
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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"Spittle"
circle, italic lowercase text; settlement 
item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.14.58
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evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Spital Farm
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"SPITAL FARMHOUSE / / APPLEBY ROAD / KENDAL / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 75348 / SD5272994313"
evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"THRESHING BARN AND GIN GANG TO NORTH EAST OF SPITAL FARMHOUSE / / APPLEBY ROAD / KENDAL / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 75349 / SD5268694334"
notes:-  
 The hospital had a mill. It may have been one of the mills at Meal Bank.

Somervell, John: 1930: Water Power Mills of South Westmorland
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