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place:- friary, Penrith
locality:- Penrith
parish Penrith town, once in Cumberland
county:- Cumbria
friary; religious house
coordinates:- NY5130
10Km square:- NY53

1Km square NY5130

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 189:-
... Here was an house of Grey friars, founded t. Edward II. or before.
person:- : Franciscan Order
date:- 1789
period:- 18th century, late; 1780s

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

friars
person:- : Augustinian Order

Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008

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