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| Chapel Flash, Kirkandrews | ||
| Chapel Flash | ||
| civil parish:- | Kirkandrews (formerly Cumberland) (probably) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | locality | |
| locality type:- | chapel (?) | |
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| SummaryText:- | unidentified place | |
| references:- | Camden 1789 |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Camden 1789 (Gough Additions) placename:- Chapel Flash item:- treaty; national boundary; boundary |
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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 188:- "..." "Near the place called Chapel Flash, stood antiently a small oratory, in which in 1345, a league between the Scots and English about fixing the limits of both kingdoms, was, in a solemn and religious manner, sworn to and confirmed by commissioners appointed for that purpose. At present nothing remains of the chapel but the name.." |
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