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| Ravenstonedale Endowed School, Ravenstonedale | ||
| Ravenstonedale Endowed School | ||
| Ravenstonedale Primary School | ||
| locality:- | Ravenstonedale | |
| civil parish:- | Ravenstonedale (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | school | |
| coordinates:- | NY72250416 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY7204 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY70 | |
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 BZB33.jpg (taken 12.8.2013)  BZB34.jpg (taken 12.8.2013) |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 29 8) |
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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. "Grammar school" |
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| evidence:- | probably old text:- Gents Mag |
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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 1823 part 2 p.324 "RAVENSTONEDALE, founded about the year 1668, and endowed by Thomas Fothergill, B.D. Master of St. John's College, Cambridge (a native of this parish), and others of his name and kindred. With the money given by the founders and others, were purchased three estates for the sum, of 447l.; viz. with 140l. was purchased 84 acres of land at Blaterne, called Horngill, which the trustees improperly sold iin 1703 to Thomas Pattinson of Breeks, subject to the trifling rent charge thereout of 6l. a year. Another estate was purchased at Foxell-rigg, in the parish of Sedbergh, for 112l. which the trustees in like manner sold, subject to the inadequate rent charge of 5l. a year. Another estate was purchased at Bowsfield, in the parish of Orton, for 195l. which" |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Gents Mag 1823 |
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| source data:- | goto source Gentleman's Magazine 1823 part 2 p.325 "remains for the benefit of the School. A rent charge of 5l. a year was also left to this School by Philip Lord Wharton, payable out of an estate at Raine, in the parish of Orton." |
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 BNU83.jpg Plaque:- "THIS SCHOOL / WAS REBUILT BY / R. GIBSON. ESQR. / OF COLDBECK / A.D. 1873." (taken 9.6.2007)  BNU84.jpg Counting sheep. (taken 9.6.2007)  BYZ70.jpg Mosaic. (taken 6.8.2013) |
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