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placename:-
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St Leonard's Chapel
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locality:-
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Wigton
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parish
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Wigton parish, once in
Cumberland
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county:-
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Cumbria
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chapel; hospital; religious house
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coordinates:-
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NY2548
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10Km square:-
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NY24
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References
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Camden 1789 (Gough Additions)
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Camden 1789 (Gough
Additions)
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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 186:-
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... Here was antiently an hospital, or free chapel dedicated
to St. Leonard, to which Mr. Pegge is of opinion belongs a
seal found in Pickering castle, c. York, and given me 1785
by Mr. Simpson surveyor there. It is of wood, which is an
unusual material, not unlike a butter pat, and has the
representation of the deity with the crucifix, circumscribed
SEGILLVM WIGHTON. ...
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placename:-
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St Leonard's Chapel
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person:-
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: Pegge, Mr
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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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