Old Cumbria Gazetteer

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	placename:-	Kirkoswald
	parish	Kirkoswald parish, once in Cumberland
	county:-	Cumbria
		building/s --
	coordinates:-	NY5541
	10Km square:-	NY54
	place code:-	Krks
	1Km square	NY5541
		Kirkoswald -- Kirkoswald -- Cumbria / -- 26.8.2005
		Kirkoswald -- Kirkoswald -- Cumbria / -- 29.4.2011
	old map:-	Garnett 1850s-60s H
		Map of the English Lakes, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, 1850s-60s.
		Kirkoswald
		blocks, settlement
	placename:-	Kirkoswald
	date:-	1850=1869
	period:-	19th century, late; 1850s; 1860s
	old map:-	Ford 1839 map
		Map of the Lake District, published in A Description of Scenery in the Lake District, by William Ford, published by Charles Thurnham, London, 1839.
		KIRKOSWALD
	placename:-	Kirkoswald
	county:-	Cumberland
	date:-	1839
	period:-	19th century, early; 1830s
	descriptive text:-	Ford 1839 (3rd edn 1843)
		Description of Scenery in the Lake District, by William Ford, published by Charles Thurnham, London, et al, 1839; published 1839-52.
		Page 128:-
		...
		KIRKOSWALD
		Is an irregular-built market-town, crowning the ridge of a hill. The most interesting objects are the Church and Castle. ...
		Page 29:-
		... A branch of the Northumberland Fetherstonhaughs is seated at the College in this town.
	placename:-	Kirkoswald
	date:-	1839
	period:-	19th century, early; 1830s
	source:-	Otley 1818
		New Map of the District of the Lakes, in Westmorland, Cumberland, and Lancashire, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Jonathan Otley, engraved by J and G Menzies, Edinburgh, Lothian, Scotland, published by J Otley, Keswick, Cumberland now Cumbria, 1818; pblished 1818 to 1850s.
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		KIRKOSWALD
	placename:-	Kirkoswald
	old text:-	Camden 1789
		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 174:-
		...
		... Kirk Oswald, dedicated to St. Oswald, formerly the property of that Hugh Morvill, who, with his accomplices, murdered Thomas archbishop of Canterbury, in memory of which fact the sword which he then used was long preserved here; ...
	placename:-	Kirk Oswald
	person:-	: Morvill, Hugh
	person:-	Becket, Thomas a
	date:-	1789
	period:-	18th century, late; 1780s
	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 190:-
		...
		[Kirk Oswald castle] ... sir Hugh Morbill, who got the town [Kirkoswald] a market t. John, ...
	placename:-	Kirk Oswald
	person:-	: Morville, Hugh, Sir
	person:-	: John
	date:-	1789
	period:-	18th century, late; 1780s
	old map:-	Bowen and Kitchin 1760
		New Map of the Counties of Cumberland and Westmoreland, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, Emanuel Bowen and Thomas Kitchin, published by T Bowles, John Bowles and Son, Robert Sayer, and John Tinney, 1760; published 1760-87.
		Kirk Oswald Mar. Th. / V
		blocks, street plan, town, market, vicarage
	placename:-	Kirk Oswald
		market town
	date:-	1760
	period:-	18th century, late; 1760s
	old map:-	Simpson 1746 map (Wmd)
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		Kirkoswald
		Circle.
	placename:-	Kirkoswald
	county:-	Cumberland
	date:-	1746
	period:-	18th century, early; 1740s
	descriptive text:-	Simpson 1746
		The strange spelling is likely a typesetting error.
		The three volumes of maps and descriptive text published as 'The Agreeable Historian, or the Compleat English Traveller ...', by Samuel Simpson, 1746.
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		The principal Towns in Cumberland, are, ... Kerkoswald, ...
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		...
		Kirkswald, lying Westward of Wigtown, and the City of Carlisle, and on the Western Banks of the River Eden, is a small Market Town, which had its Name from the Church, dedicated to St. Oswald. There is nothing here of any Note. It is 210 Miles computed, and 252 measured from London. The Market is held on Thursdays.
	other name:-	Kirkswald
	date:-	1746
	period:-	18th century, early; 1740s
	old map:-	Morden 1695 (Cmd)
		Maps, Westmorland, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, and Cumberland, scale about 3 miles to 1 inch, by Robert Morden, 1695.
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		Kirk Oswald
		Circle, buildings, towers.
	placename:-	Kirk Oswald
	county:-	Cumberland
	date:-	1695
	period:-	17th century, late; 1690s
	old map:-	Jansson 1646
		Map, Cumbria et Westmoria, or Cumberland and Westmorland, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Jansson, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1646; published 1646-1724.
		Kirkoswold
		Buildings and tower.
	placename:-	Kirkoswold
	county:-	Cumberland
	date:-	1646
	period:-	17th century, early; 1640s
	old map:-	Speed 1611 (Cmd)
		The more southerly symbol; the other is the castle
		Maps, The Countie Westmorland and Kendale the Cheif Towne, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, and Cumberland and the Ancient Citie Carlile, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by John Speed, London, 1611; published 1611-1770.
		circle, building, tower
	date:-	1611
	period:-	17th century, early; 1610s
	old map:-	Saxton 1576
		Map, Westmorlandiae et Cumberlandiae Comitatus ie Westmorland and Cumberland, scale about 5 miles to 1 inch, by Christopher Saxton, London, engraved by Augustinus Ryther, 1576; published 1579-1645.
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		Church, symbol for a parish or village, with a parish church.
		Kirkoswold
	placename:-	Kirkoswold
	county:-	Cumberlandia
		village
	date:-	1576
	period:-	16th century, late; 1570s
	market notes:-	see:- Bowen, Emanuel & Kitchin, Thomas: 1760: New Map of the Counties of Cumberland and Westmoreland
		Thursday market granted by John to Hugh de Morvill, 1 March 1201; in Rotuli Chartarum.
		Market day Thursday given on Bowen and Kitchin's map, 1760.
	person:-	: John
	person:-	: Morvill, Hugh de
		market town
	date:-	1201; 1760
	road book:-	Cary 1798 (2nd edn 1802)
		Road book, Cary's New Itinerary, by John Cary, published by G and J Cary, 86 St James's Street, London, 1798-1828.
		page 319-320
		Kirkoswald
		market town
	placename:-	Kirkoswald
	date:-	1802
	period:-	19th century, early; 1800s
	old print:-	Calverley 1899
		Notes on the Early Sulptured Crosses, Shrines and Monuments in the Present Diocese of Carisle, by Rev William Slater Calverley, edited by W G Collingwood, published for the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, by Titus Wilson, Kendal, Westmorland, 1899.
		Found in Kirkoswald, now in the British Museum:-
		from Lysons.
	date:-	1899
	period:-	19th century, late; 1890s
	Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008

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