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placename:-
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Clifton Wells
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parish
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Clifton parish, once in
Westmorland
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county:-
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Cumbria
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spring; chalybeate spring
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coordinates:-
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NY52572591, NY52592592
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10Km square:-
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NY52
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1Km square |
NY5225 |
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source:- |
OS County Series (Wmd 7)
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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. |
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Clifton Wells (Chalybeate)
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placename:-
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Clifton Wells
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date:-
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1860=1869
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period:-
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19th century, late; 1860s
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old text:- |
Camden 1789 (Gough
Additions)
-- presumably relevant
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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. |
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Page 162:-
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... Dr. Todd mentions a fountain in this parish near the
banks of the Lowther of christalline limpid water, strongly
impregnated with steel, and vitriol, of great benefit for
scorbutic complaints.
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person:-
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: Todd, Dr
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date:-
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1789
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period:-
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18th century, late; 1780s
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Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008
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