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| Burbank House, Little Blencow | ||
| Burbank House | ||
| Blencow Grammar School | ||
| locality:- | Little Blencow | |
| locality:- | Blencow | |
| civil parish:- | Greystoke (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | buildings | |
| locality type:- | school (ex) | |
| coordinates:- | NY45553269 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY4532 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY43 | |
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 BQT77.jpg (taken 11.6.2009)  BQT78.jpg Plaque:- "[THOMAS BURBANK / ]" (taken 11.6.2009) |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 49) |
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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 (Endowed)" |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Camden 1789 (Gough Additions) |
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| 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. goto sourcePage 192:- "..." "... Here [Blencow] is a very good grammar-school, founded and endowed 19 Elizabeth by Thomas Burbank, who was born in the town, and had been a schoolmaster." |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:- Burbank House |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "BURBANK HOUSE / / / DACRE / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 73768 / NY4556632705" |
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 BQT79.jpg Weathervane, a greyhound? (taken 11.6.2009) |
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| hearsay:- |
The school was first built 1577, rebuilt 1795. |
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| Paley and Austin series | ||
| person:- | architect : Austin, Hubert J |
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| person:- | architect : Paley, Henry A |
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| date:- | 1925 |
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