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Gilderdale, Alston Moor
Gilderdale
locality:-   Gilderdale Burn
civil parish:-   Alston Moor (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   valley
coordinates:-   NY69354730 (etc) 
1Km square:-   NY6947
10Km square:-   NY64
county:-   Northumberland

evidence:-   old map:- Mercator 1595 (edn?) 
placename:-  Gwilderdale
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Northumbria, Cumberlandia, et Dunelmensis Episcopatus, ie Northumberland, Cumberland and Durham etc, scale about 6.5 miles to 1 inch, by Gerard Mercator, Duisberg, Germany, about 1595.
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"Gwilderdale"
valley 
item:-  JandMN : 169
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