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placename:- Castlesteads
locality:- Yanwath Wood
parish Yanwath and Eamont Bridge parish, once in Westmorland
county:- Cumbria
building/s
coordinates:- NY518252
10Km square:- NY52

1Km square NY5125

old text:- Camden 1789 (Gough Additions)

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.
Page 162:-
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About a mile from Yanwath hall at the end of the wood opposite Lowther hall is an antient round fortification called Castle steads.

placename:- Castle Steads
date:- 1789
period:- 18th century, late; 1780s

Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008

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