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placename:- Shap Thorn
parish Shap Rural parish, once in Westmorland
county:- Cumbria
hill
Altitude 1129 feet
coordinates:- NY571117
10Km square:- NY51

1Km square NY5711

old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 21 6)

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:- Shap Thorn
tree
date:- 1890=1899
period:- 19th century, late; 1890s

old map:- Morden 1695 (Wmd)

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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S. Thorn
No symbol, drawn beside the road from Shap towards Orton.

placename:- Shap Thorn
county:- Westmorland
date:- 1695
period:- 17th century, late; 1690s

Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008

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