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| Watchfield, Kendal | ||
| Watchfield | ||
| locality:- | Kendal | |
| civil parish:- | Kendal (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | locality | |
| 1Km square:- | SD5191 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD59 | |
| references:- | Camden 1789 |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Camden 1789 (Gough Additions) placename:- Watchfield |
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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 152:- "..." "Above the station nearer Kendal a little below the bridge is a place very suitable for the purpose and still called the Watchfield." |
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