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Stoneraise, Threlkeld
Stoneraise
civil parish:-   Threlkeld (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   NY34822671
1Km square:-   NY3426
10Km square:-   NY32


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CAX20.jpg (taken 13.6.2014)  
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CAX21.jpg 
(taken 13.6.2014)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 57 13) 
placename:-  Stoneraise
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.

evidence:-   old map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd) 
placename:-  Stoneraise
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, 3x2 sheets, The County of Cumberland, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, by Thomas Donald, engraved and published by Joseph Hodskinson, 29 Arundel Street, Strand, London, 1774.
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"Stoneraise"
block or blocks, labelled in lowercase; a hamlet or just a house 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library

evidence:-   old text:- Clarke 1787
placename:-  Stone Rays
source data:-   Guide book, A Survey of the Lakes of Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire, written and published by James Clarke, Penrith, Cumberland, and in London etc, 1787; published 1787-93.
image CL13P056, button  goto source
Page 56:-  "... About 100 yards beyond the eleventh-mile post [from Penrith], near to Stone-Rays, (an estate belonging to Rowland Stephenson, Esq; one of the Members for the city of Carlisle,) ..."

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Stoneraise
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"STONERAISE / / / THRELKELD / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 73570 / NY3481726704"

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