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Gilshaughlin, Appleby
Gilshaughlin
locality:-   Appleby
civil parish:-   Appleby-in-Westmorland (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
1Km square:-   NY6820 (??) 
10Km square:-   NY62 (??) 
references:-   Simpson 1746

evidence:-   descriptive text:- Simpson 1746
placename:-  Gilshaughlin
item:-  market
source data:-   Atlas, three volumes of maps and descriptive text published as 'The Agreeable Historian, or the Compleat English Traveller ...', by Samuel Simpson, 1746.
image SMP3P4, button  goto source
Page 1022:-  "... In 1598 it [Apleby] was also a great Sufferer by a Pestilence, and so depopulated, as appears from an Inscription placed in the Garden belonging to the School-house, describing those Calamities, which it has never yet recovered, that the Market was removed to Gilshaughlin, four or five Miles from the Town. ..."

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