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placename:- Kirkland
locality:- Kendal
parish Kendal parish, once in Westmorland
county:- Cumbria
building/s; area
coordinates:- SD514922
10Km square:- SD59

1Km square SD5192

source:- Brathwaite 1638

Poem, Drunken Barnaby's Four Journey to the North of England, by Richard Brathwaite, 1638, published 1716-62.
Page 129:-
...
Now to Kirkland, truly by it
May that Say be verified:
'Far from God, but near the Temple,
Tho' their Pastor gave Example,
They are such a kind of Vermin,
Pipe they'd rather hear than Sermon.

placename:- Kirkland
date:- 1638
period:- 17th century, early; 1630s

hearth tax returns:- Hearth Tax 1670

in Westmerland / The hundred of Kendall Barrony
Kirkland

placename:- Kirkland
date:- 1670
period:- 17th century, late; 1670s

Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008

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