Old Cumbria Gazetteer

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	place:-	Mediobogdum
	place:-	Hardknott Castle
	locality:-	Hardknott Pass
	locality:-	road, Ambleside to Ravenglass
	parish	Eskdale parish, once in Cumberland
	county:-	Cumbria
		roman fort
	coordinates:-	NY218015
	10Km square:-	NY20
		Built to control the road between Ambleside and Ravenglass, between 120-138.
	1Km square	NY2101
		roman fort, Hardknott Pass -- Hardknott Pass -- road, Ambleside to Ravenglass -- Eskdale -- Cumbria / -- 13.10.2006
		roman fort, Hardknott Pass -- Hardknott Pass -- road, Ambleside to Ravenglass -- Eskdale -- Cumbria / -- North wall. -- 13.10.2006
	descriptive text:-	Otley 1823 (5th edn 1834)
		Guidebook, Concise Description of the English Lakes, later A Description of the English Lakes, by Jonathan Otley, published by the author, Keswick, Cumberland, by J Richardson, London, and by Arthur Foster, Kirky Lonsdale, Cumbria, 1823 onwards.
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		Page 83:-
		... On the west side of the mountain Hardknot, a space of about two acres is encompassed by the remains of a wall, with places of entrance on each of the four sides. There seem to have been towers at the different gates and corners, and several interior erections.
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		Page 108:-
		... half way down the hill on the right, are the ruins of a place called Hardknot Castle, described in a former page; but having been built without mortar, or cement, scarcely any part of the walls are left standing.
	date:-	1823
	period:-	19th century, early; 1820s
	old text:-	Camden 1789 (Gough Additions) -- presumably relevant
		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 180:-
		The foundations on Hardknot may have belonged to some chapel or cross, built there as an eminent place. ...
	date:-	1789
	period:-	18th century, late; 1780s
	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 169:-
		...
		... Hard knott, a very steep mountain, on whose summit were lately discovered huge stones and foundations of a castle, to the astonishment of the beholders, it being so steep as hardly to be ascended. ...
	date:-	1789
	period:-	18th century, late; 1780s
	text:-	Rivet and Smith 1979
	placename:-	Mediobogdum
	other name:-	Medibogdo
	other name:-	Medebogdo
	old map:-	Unknown 1860
		Sketch map, Sketch of the Pass into West Cumberland, ie Hardknott Pass, Eskdale, scale about 25 ins to 1 mile, 1860.
	date:-	1860
	period:-	19th century, late; 1860s
		photographs
		roman fort, Hardknott Pass -- Hardknott Pass -- road, Ambleside to Ravenglass -- Eskdale -- Cumbria / -- Stone wall, original up to the line of slates which mark from where restoration has been done. -- 13.10.2006
		roman fort, Hardknott Pass -- Hardknott Pass -- road, Ambleside to Ravenglass -- Eskdale -- Cumbria / -- Stone wall, original up to the line of slates which mark from where restoration has been done. -- 13.10.2006
		roman fort, Hardknott Pass -- Hardknott Pass -- road, Ambleside to Ravenglass -- Eskdale -- Cumbria / -- Administrative buildings. -- 13.10.2006
		roman fort, Hardknott Pass -- Hardknott Pass -- road, Ambleside to Ravenglass -- Eskdale -- Cumbria / -- Bath house. -- 13.10.2006
		roman fort, Hardknott Pass -- Hardknott Pass -- road, Ambleside to Ravenglass -- Eskdale -- Cumbria / -- Bath house. -- 7.10.2011
		roman fort, Hardknott Pass -- Hardknott Pass -- road, Ambleside to Ravenglass -- Eskdale -- Cumbria / -- 14.3.2007
		roman fort, Hardknott Pass -- Hardknott Pass -- road, Ambleside to Ravenglass -- Eskdale -- Cumbria / -- Herdwick sheep, Brotherilkeld Farm? -- Red stroke over and down both shoulders, red pop on tail head. -- 7.10.2011
	references	: 1928: Trans CWAAS: series 2 vol.28: pp.314-352 : 1965: Trans CWAAS: series 2 vol.65: pp.169-175
	Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008

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