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Rawthey Bridge stone circle, Ravenstonedale
Rawthey Bridge Stone Circle
locality:-   Rawthey
civil parish:-   Sedbergh (formerly Yorkshire)
civil parish:-   Ravenstonedale (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   stone circle (gone) 
1Km square:-   SD7197 (??) 
10Km square:-   SD79

evidence:-   old text:- Camden 1789 (Gough Additions) 
source data:-   Book, 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.
image CAM2P162, button  goto source
Page 162:-  "..."
"... In the high street leading from Kirkby Stephen to Sedbergh near Rawthey bridge is a circle of large stones supposed a druidical monument. ..."


Waterhouse, John: 1985: Stone Circles of Cumbria: Phillimore and Co (Chichester, Sussex):: ISBN 0 85033 566 3
Nicolson, J &Burn, R: 1777: History and Antiquities of the Counties of Westmorland and Cumberland
Burl, H A W: 1976: Stone Circles of the British Isles: Yale University Press (United States)

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