Old Cumbria Gazetteer |
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| Clifton Wells, Clifton | ||
| Clifton Wells | ||
| civil parish:- | Clifton (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | spring | |
| locality type:- | chalybeate spring | |
| coordinates:- | NY52572591 | |
| coordinates:- | NY52592592 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY5225 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY52 | |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 7) placename:- Clifton Wells |
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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. "Clifton Wells (Chalybeate)" |
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| evidence:- | presumably 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 162:- "..." "... Dr. Todd mentions a fountain in this parish near the banks of the Lowther of christalline limpid water, strongly impregnated with steel, and vitriol, of great benefit for scorbutic complaints." |
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