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church, Gowbarrow
Gowbarrow chapel
locality:-   Knotts
locality:-   Gowbarrow
civil parish:-   Matterdale (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   church
coordinates:-   NY435214 (guess) 
1Km square:-   NY4321
10Km square:-   NY42
references:-   Clarke 1787

evidence:-   old text:- Clarke 1787
source data:-   Guide book, A Survey of the Lakes of Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire, written and published by James Clarke, Penrith, Cumberland, and in London etc, 1787; published 1787-93.
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"... I am in possession of an admission of Anthony Rumney as tenant of two tenements at Gowbarrow-Hall, and part of a tenement at Old Church: this admission farther sets forth, that the parochial chapel and the burying-ground was then at Gowbarrow-Hall; ... dated in 1474, ..."
"The chapel at Gowbarrow being destroyed by the Scots, this place was without any place of worship till some years afterwards, ..."

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