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Bankes Memorial, Keswick
Bankes Memorial
site name:-   Fitz Parks
locality:-   Keswick
civil parish:-   Keswick (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   memorial
locality type:-   statue
coordinates:-   NY26932363
1Km square:-   NY2623
10Km square:-   NY22


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"IN HONOUR OF SIR JOHN BANKES A NATIVE AND BENEFACTOR OF THIS TOWN, BORN AT CASTLERIGG, 1589 ..." He became Attorney General, 1634 and Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, 1640; died, Oxford, 1644.
(taken 3.4.2006)  

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