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There was once?.
place:- market cross, Dalston
locality:- Dalston
parish Dalston parish, once in Cumberland
county:- Cumbria
market cross; cross
coordinates:- NY369503
10Km square:- NY35

1Km square NY3650

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 193:-
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Though Dalston is no market town, it has a very large cross, which seems to have been built at the expence of the neighbouring gentry, as their arms on it shew. The three kites heads, the arms of bishop Kite 1520-1537, refer the erecting of it to his time.
person:- : Kite Family
date:- 1789
period:- 18th century, late; 1780s

Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008

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