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| Holywell, Burtholme | ||
| Holywell | ||
| locality:- | Shaws | |
| locality:- | Lanercost (?) | |
| civil parish:- | Burtholme (formerly Cumberland) (?) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | spring | |
| 1Km square:- | NY5563 (guess) | |
| 10Km square:- | NY56 | |
| references:- | Camden 1789 |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Camden 1789 (Gough Additions) placename:- Holywell |
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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 204:- "..." "... Near this place [Lanercost], at Shaws, a medicinal spring called Holywell issues out of a rock impregnated with sulphur, nitre, and vitriol, and good for the spleen, stone, and" goto sourcePage 205:- "cutaneous disorders, and much resorted to both by the English and Scotch. ..." |
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