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Barbon Beacon, Middleton
Barbon Beacon
locality:-   Thorn Moor
locality:-   Barbon Fell
civil parish:-   Middleton (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   beacon
locality type:-   tower
coordinates:-   SD64068340 (guess) 
1Km square:-   SD6483
10Km square:-   SD68

evidence:-   old map:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd) 
placename:-  Barbon Beacon
source data:-   Map, 4 sheets, The County of Westmoreland, scale 1 inch to 1 mile, surveyed 1768, and engraved and published by Thomas Jefferys, London, 1770.
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"BARBON BEACON"
hill hachuring; hill or mountain; tower at the west end 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland

evidence:-   old map:- Cary 1789 (edn 1805) 
placename:-  Barbon Beacon
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Westmoreland, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Cary, London, 1789; edition 1805.
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CY24SD68.jpg
"Barbon Beacon"
hill hachuring 
item:-  JandMN : 129
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   old map:- Greenwood 1824
source data:-   Maps, Map of the County of Westmorland, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, and Map of the County of Cumberland, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, etc, by C and J Greenwood, published by George Pringle jnr, 70 Queen Street, Cheapside, London, 1823 and 1824 respectively.
"Beacon tower at the west end of 'Barbon Fell'"

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