Old Cumbria Gazetteer

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	placename:-	Mote, The
	other name:-	Brampton Motte
	locality:-	Brampton
	parish	Brampton parish, once in Cumberland
	county:-	Cumbria
		motte and bailey; castle
	coordinates:-	NY53326128
	10Km square:-	NY56
	1Km square	NY5361
		Mote, The -- Brampton -- Brampton -- Cumbria / -- 16.2.2011
	old map:-	OS County Series (Cmd 18 5)
		County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25 inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948.
	placename:-	Moat, The
		locality
	date:-	1890=1899
	period:-	19th century, late; 1890s
	source:-	OS County Series (Cmd 18)
		County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25 inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948.
		The Moat
	placename:-	Moat, The
	date:-	1867=1868
	period:-	19th century, late; 1860s
	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 176:-
		... Nor must I omit that at Brampton is a high hill fortified at the top with a ditch and called The Mote, commanding an extensive prospect over the country below.
	placename:-	Mote, The
	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 201:-
		...
		... Brampton ... Near the town is a large round hill called the moat, 50 yards high, gently and gradually tapering from the base to the summit with a trench or ditch round it at the top.
		...
		Page 203:-
		...
		... Brampton, ... The moat is a considerable fortification, probably Danish, near 360 feet perpendicular, about 40 feet perpendicular from the crown, a ditch near 20 feet deep and 300 paces in circumference, the top a level plain 40 paces diameter.
	placename:-	Moat, The
	date:-	1789
	period:-	18th century, late; 1780s
	descriptive text:-	Simpson 1746
		The three volumes of maps and descriptive text published as 'The Agreeable Historian, or the Compleat English Traveller ...', by Samuel Simpson, 1746.
		goto source.
		...
		... By it [Brampton] there is a high Hill, called the Mote, ditched round at the Top, from which there is a clear Prospect over all the Country. Below this, ... have been found several Roman Inscriptions.
	placename:-	Mote, The
	date:-	1746
	period:-	18th century, early; 1740s
	Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008

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