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Fair Hill, Appleby
Fair Hill
Gallows Hill
locality:-   Appleby
civil parish:-   Appleby-in-Westmorland (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   hill
locality type:-   gallows (site?) 
coordinates:-   NY68372146
1Km square:-   NY6821
10Km square:-   NY62

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 9) 
placename:-  Gallows Hill
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.
"Gallows Hill / FAIR GROUND"

evidence:-   old map:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd) 
placename:-  Gallows Hill
source data:-   Map, 4 sheets, The County of Westmoreland, scale 1 inch to 1 mile, surveyed 1768, and engraved and published by Thomas Jefferys, London, 1770.
image
J5NY62SE.jpg
"Gallows H."
circle, labelled in italic lowercase text; settlement, farm, house, or hamlet? 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland

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