Old Cumbria Gazetteer |
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| poorhouse, Hawkshead | ||
| locality:- | Gallowbarrow | |
| civil parish:- | Hawkshead (formerly Lancashire) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | poorhouse | |
| coordinates:- | SD350985 (?) | |
| 1Km square:- | SD3598 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD39 | |
| references:- | Camden 1789 |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Camden 1789 (Gough Additions) |
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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 143:- "..." "Inscription on the poor-house at Gallow Barrow near Hawkshead:" "Rev. Thomas Sandys, curate of St. Martin in the Fields and lecturer at St. James's, London, A.D. 1717, left by his will the interest of 800l. to endow this poor house, maintain and educate as many boys born in Hawkeshead as the interest will admit of, and they are to be taught at the freeschool.- 1749. Subsequent benefactions, George Satterthwaite late of Green End, deceased, 20l. William Dennison, late of Rodger Ground, deceased, 400l. N.B. Some of it lost." |
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