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St Cuthbert's CofE Primary School, Great Salkeld
St Cuthbert's CofE Primary School
Great Salkeld School
locality:-   Great Salkeld
civil parish:-   Great Salkeld (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
locality type:-   school (ex) 
coordinates:-   NY55183670
1Km square:-   NY5536
10Km square:-   NY53


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BSC59.jpg (taken 5.2.2010)  
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BSC62.jpg  The school anniversary sign made 2002; not located at the village hall.
(taken 5.2.2010)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 50 2) 
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.
"National School"


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BSC60.jpg (taken 5.2.2010)  
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BSC61.jpg  Date (not the only one):-
"1856" (taken 5.2.2010)  

hearsay:-  
There was a school in the tower of the church from at least 1515. A separate building was built for a village school, 1686; a new school was built 1856 after a gap without a school. The scholl closed 2004.

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