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| Maidenhold, Crackenthorpe | ||
| locality:- | Low Moor | |
| civil parish:- | Crackenthorpe (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | roman fort (?) | |
| coordinates:- | NY647243 (roughly) | |
| 1Km square:- | NY6424 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY62 | |
| references:- | Camden 1789 |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Camden 1789 (Gough Additions) placename:- Maidenhold |
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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 158:- "..." "... between Crackenthorp and Kirkby Thore, on the side of the Roman road, is a large Roman camp, ... and at about a bowshot distance further by the way side is a small fort called Maidenhold, which seems to have been a guard house or watch tower to the camp, and, by its name, may possibly have some relation to the Maidenway at Kirkby Thore and Maiden castle upon Stainmore." |
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| see:- | roman fort, Redlands Bank |
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