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There was once?.
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placename:-
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Kirkstead
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other name:-
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Temple of Diana
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locality:-
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Levens Bridge
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parish
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Levens parish, once in
Westmorland
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county:-
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Cumbria
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building/s; temple
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coordinates:-
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SD4985
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10Km square:-
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SD48
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References
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Camden 1789
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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 153:-
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At Levens, ... is a fair stone bridge over the Kent, on the
south side of which river are ruins of an antient building
now called Kirkstead, said to have been a temple of Diana,
...the park well stocked with fallow deer and almost equally
divided by the river is a spring called the Dropping well,
that petrifies moss, wood, leaves, &c.
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placename:-
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Kirkstead
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person:-
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: Diana
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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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