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St Nicholas's Hospital, Appleby
St Nicholas's Hospital
locality:-   Appleby
civil parish:-   Appleby-in-Westmorland (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   hospital (site) 
locality type:-   almshouse
locality type:-   religious house (once) 
coordinates:-   NY68032027 (roughly) 
1Km square:-   NY6820
10Km square:-   NY62
references:-   OS County Series

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 15 3) 
placename:-  St Nicholas' Hospital
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.
"Holme / St. Nicholas' Hospital (Site of)"

evidence:-   map:- 
source data:-   : 1954: Monastic Britain: Ordnance Survey

evidence:-   old text:- Camden 1789 (Gough Additions) 
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 CAM2P158, button  goto source
Page 158:-  "..."
"... Here was a house of White Friars founded 1281, and near it an hospital of St. Nicholas."

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