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cock pit, Carlisle
locality:-   Carlisle
civil parish:-   Carlisle (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   cock pit
10Km square:-   NY45

evidence:-   old painting:- 
placename:-  Carlisle Cock Pit
item:-  smithyhorse
source data:-   Painting, oil painting, Carlisle Cockpit, Cumberland, by H J St Clair, 1873.
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Exterior view; doors open revealing scene inside. 
inscribed on frame at :-  "Carlisle Cock Pit erected 1785 by the Duke of Norfolk and Sir James Lowther used as a brass foundry Afterwards as a Blacksmiths Shop Demolished June 18 1876."
item:-  Tullie House Museum : 1978.108.161
Image © Tullie House Museum

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