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Stanwix: Stanwix Bank
Stanwix Bank
locality:-   Hadrian's Wall
locality:-   Stanwix
civil parish:-   Carlisle (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   street
coordinates:-   NY40005693 (etc) 
1Km square:-   NY4056
10Km square:-   NY45

evidence:-   old text:- Gents Mag
item:-  rebellion, 17451745 Rebellion
source data:-   Magazine, The Gentleman's Magazine or Monthly Intelligencer or Historical Chronicle, published by Edward Cave under the pseudonym Sylvanus Urban, and by other publishers, London, monthly from 1731 to 1922.
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Gentleman's Magazine 1745 p.603  "... ..."
"Nov. 12. By letters from Carlisle, dated the 9th Inst. receiv'd late last night, there is advice that part of the rebel army encamp'd that evening on a moor within two miles of that city."
"By an express this morning from the North there is an account, that upon the 9th in the afternoon [9.11.1745], about 50 or 60 of the rebels, well mounted, and thought to be officers, appear'd on a hill call'd Stanwix-Bank, close by Carlisle; that the castle of Carlisle fir'd upon them, and that after some time they retreated: ..."

evidence:-   old text:- Gents Mag 1746
item:-  rebellion, 17451745 Rebellionsiege, CarlisleCarlisle, siege
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Gentleman's Magazine 1746 p.233  "... [1745 Rebellion]"
"On Friday [8.11.1745] the middlemost column join'd them, and on Saturday their hussars advanced to Stanwix bank, to take a view of the city; on which the 8 gun battery at B fir'd from the castle and they disappear'd. On Sunday [10.11.1745] they invested the city on all sides, ... those on the north under the duke of Perth remained in the village of Stanwix, where some houses received considerable damage from the continued fire of the eight gun battery."

evidence:-   old text:- Gents Mag
source data:-   Magazine, The Gentleman's Magazine or Monthly Intelligencer or Historical Chronicle, published by Edward Cave under the pseudonym Sylvanus Urban, and by other publishers, London, monthly from 1731 to 1922.
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Gentleman's Magazine 1766 p.166  "..."
"Carlisle is a very pretty town, sweetly situated, there is a hill beyond it, that affords a most glorious prospect, having a great river, a noble bridge, and fine meadows below, and, on the hill opposite the town, surrounded with trees, and gardens, above which on a green bank, stands the castle; four miles from hence, the Esk divides the two kingdoms, the stream of which is so rapid, that we found some difficulty in passing it. ..."

evidence:-   old painting:- 
placename:-  Stanwix Bank
item:-  pump
source data:-   Painting, watercolour, Stanwix Bank, Carlisle, Cumberland, by Edward Arthur 'Evacustes' Phipson, England, 1905.
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View from roadside; a small green with wooden pump in foreground beside which stand cottages and houses. 
inscribed &dated at bottom left:-  "Stanwix Bank, Carlisle 1905"
signed at bottom right:-  "Evacustes A Phipson"
item:-  Tullie House Museum : 1907.12.5
Image © Tullie House Museum

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