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limekiln, Rampside
locality:-   Rampside
civil parish:-   Barrow-in-Furness (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   limekiln
coordinates:-   SD23886613 (estimate) 
1Km square:-   SD2366
10Km square:-   SD26

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Lan 28) 
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.
"Limekiln"

evidence:-   old print:- Gibson 1851
source data:-   Print, engraving, Piel Pier, Rampside, with Barrow in the Distance, from the Sea, Lancashire, published by J Jackson, Market Place, Ulverston, Lancashire, and by Whittaker and Co, London, 1851.
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On p.89 of a Hand Book to The Lakes, by James Gibson. 
printed at bottom:-  "PIEL PIER, RAMPSIDE; WITH BARROW IN THE DISTANCE, - FROM THE SEA."
item:-  Armitt Library : A1131.7
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