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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 |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Camden 1789 (Gough Additions) placename:- Gondsike |
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| 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.." |
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| notes:- |
Not found on the OS County Series, but there is a Silver Sike stream. |
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