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placename:- St Nicholas's Hospital
locality:- Appleby-in-Westmorland
parish Appleby-in-Westmorland parish, once in Westmorland
county:- Cumbria
hospital; almshouse; religious house
coordinates:- NY68052022
10Km square:- NY62
References OS County Series (Wmd 15)

1Km square NY6820

old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 15 3)

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.
St. Nicholas' Hospital (Site of)

placename:- St Nicholas' Hospital
religious house
date:- 1890=1899
period:- 19th century, late; 1890s

old text:- Camden 1789 (Gough Additions)

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 158:-
...
... Here was a house of White Friars founded 1281, and near it an hospital of St. Nicholas.
date:- 1789
period:- 18th century, late; 1780s

map:- see:- : 1954: Monastic Britain: Ordnance Survey


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