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Moot Hall, Appleby
Moot Hall
Street:-   Boroughgate
locality:-   Appleby
civil parish:-   Appleby-in-Westmorland (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   NY68362032
1Km square:-   NY6820
10Km square:-   NY62

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BTW76.jpg (taken 7.1.2011)  
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BME65.jpg  Coat of arms on the Moot Hall.
(taken 30.5.2006)  
evidence:-   old map:- Hill 1754
placename:-  Moot Hall
source data:-   Town plan, A Plan of Appleby in Westmorland, scale about 32 ins to 1 mile, engraved by Nathaniel Hill, 1754.
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M010P2.jpg
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 211
Image © Carlisle Library
evidence:-   old text:- Camden 1789 (Gough Additions) 
item:-  assizes
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 CAM2P157, button  goto source
Page 157:-  "..."
"... The assizes are now held in the town-hall, and the gaol is at the end of the bridge."
evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Moot Hall
item:-  date stone (1596)
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"MOOT HALL / 63-66 / BOROUGHGATE / APPLEBY IN WESTMORLAND / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II[star] / 73618 / NY6835320347"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Dated 1596. Two storeys, stuccoed over stone. A door (approached by external steps) in the upper story of the south end is chamfered with a four-centred head, and with initials and date 1596 R.A.W. The ground floor is occupied by small shops, the upper storey has late C17 features including panelled council chamber. Island site in wide main street. North end has modern low addition in classical style. Bell turret and south end. Said to have been rebuilt 1769."

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BQR61.jpg (taken 1.6.2009)  
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CAD57.jpg  Flag.
(taken 21.3.2014)  
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