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Gondsike, Roundthwaite
Gondsike
locality:-   Roundthwaite
civil parish:-   Tebay (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   spring
1Km square:-   NY6002 (?) 
10Km square:-   NY60
references:-   Camden 1789

evidence:-   old text:- Camden 1789 (Gough Additions) 
placename:-  Gondsike
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.
Page 156:-  "..."
"A little above Rownthwait on the north side of Jeffery mount is a small spring called Gondsike, which continually casts up small silver like pieces of spangles. In the mosses here abouts are dug up subterraneous trees.."

notes:-  
Not found on the OS County Series, but there is a Silver Sike stream.

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