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castle, Caldbeck
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locality:-   Caldbeck
civil parish:-   Caldbeck (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   castle
1Km square:-   NY3239 (?) 
10Km square:-   NY33
references:-   Clarke 1787

evidence:-   old text:- Clarke 1787
placename:-  Caldbeck Castle
source data:-   Guide book, A Survey of the Lakes of Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire, written and published by James Clarke, Penrith, Cumberland, and in London etc, 1787; published 1787-93.
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"I do not find any ancient authors mention a castle here [Castlerigg], Speed, who speaks of twenty-five in Cumberland, hath found out every one I ever heard or knew of, except Kirkoswald; how that has escaped him I cannot tell. I shall here put down their names, and, as well as I can, their most ancient owners, and supposed founders."
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"15 CALDBECK. William de Vedey and Walter Maleclerk."
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