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placename:- St Michael's Church
other name:- Rampside Church
locality:- Rampside
parish Barrow-in-Furness borough, once in Lancashire
county:- Cumbria
church
coordinates:- SD23926732
10Km square:- SD26
References : 2005: Diocese of Carlisle, Directory 2004/5

1Km square SD2367

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St Michael's Church -- Rampside -- Barrow-in-Furness -- Cumbria / -- 21.10.2005
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St Michael's Church -- Rampside -- Barrow-in-Furness -- Cumbria / -- Plaque:- -- 'THIS CHAPEL / WAS REBUILT A.D. 1840. / WM. DAWSON, MINISTER, / CHRIST[ ] LOWTHER, WARDEN. / James Wearing, Joiner. / James Holme Waller / John Holme [do.] / Wm. Bar[b]in [do.]' -- 1.7.2011

old map:- Nurse 1918

Map, The Diocese of Carlisle, Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire North of the Sands, now Cumbria, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Rev Euston J Nurse, published by Charles Thurnam and Sons, 11 English Street, Carlisle, Cumberland, 1918 and 2nd edn 1939.
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RAMPSIDE
site name:- Dalton Rural Deanery
site name:- Archdeaconry of Furness
site name:- Diocese of Carlisle
date:- 1939
period:- 1930s

old map:- Hydrographic Office 1850s-90s

Charts, Irish Sea, Solway Firth, etc, published by the Hydrographic Office, 1850-58.
coast view on Admiralty chart
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Yarlside Church
The church is marked on the chart, at Rampside.

placename:- Yarlside Church
date:- 1858
period:- 19th century, late; 1850s

hearsay Built 1840 on the older site of a chapel of rest, which, it is said, lay on a Saxon burial mound.

1 cross slab grave cover; inside west wall of nave.
Ryder, Peter: 2001: Cross Slab Grave Covers of Cumbria: Cumbria CC (Carlisle, Cumbria)

hearsay In the kirk yard is the grave stone of John Dickinson, died 1878, age 41:-


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