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placename:-
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Castle Folds
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locality:-
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Great Asby Scar
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parish
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Asby parish, once in
Westmorland
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county:-
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Cumbria
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settlement
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coordinates:-
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NY65000934
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10Km square:-
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NY60
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1Km square |
NY6509 |
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old text:- |
Camden 1789 (Gough
Additions)
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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. |
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Page 156:-
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... Behind Orton Scarr, ... on a large tract of naked rocks
in a solitary place, is a place called Castle folds,
strongly walled about, and containing about one acre and a
half, to shelter cattle in case of inroads, and at the
highest corner has been a fort for the keepers. ...
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placename:-
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Castle Folds
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date:-
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1789
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period:-
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18th century, late; 1780s
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Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008
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