Old Cumbria Gazetteer |
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| market cross, Dalston | ||
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| locality:- | Dalston | |
| civil parish:- | Dalston (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | market cross (gone?) | |
| locality type:- | cross (gone?) | |
| coordinates:- | NY369503 (guess) | |
| 1Km square:- | NY3650 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY35 | |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Camden 1789 (Gough Additions) item:- coat of arms |
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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 193:- "..." "Though Dalston is no market town, it has a very large cross, which seems to have been built at the expence of the neighbouring gentry, as their arms on it shew. The three kites heads, the arms of bishop Kite 1520-1537, refer the erecting of it to his time." |
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