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Beacon Hill Farm, Skelton
Beacon Hill Farm
locality:-   Beacon, The
civil parish:-   Skelton (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   NY40864485
1Km square:-   NY4044
10Km square:-   NY44

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 30 16) 
placename:-  Beacon Hill
source data:-   Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25 inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948.

hearsay:-  
The locality here is The Beacon. The beacon on rising ground was one of a chain lit to warn Carlisle of the Armada, 1588. So it is said.

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