Old Cumbria Gazetteer |
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| almshouses, Cockermouth | ||
| Street:- | Kirkgate | |
| locality:- | Cockermouth | |
| civil parish:- | Cockermouth (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | almshouse | |
| 1Km square:- | NY1230 (?) | |
| 10Km square:- | NY13 | |
| references:- | Farington 1816 |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Farington 1816 |
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| source data:- | Descriptive text:- ... In the year 1760, the Rev. Thomas Leathes gave a house in Kirkgate, for the residence of six poor widows, or unmarried women, above sixty years of age, and left the interest of one hundred pounds as an endowment, to which his daughter added fifty pounds. item:- Armitt Library : A6666.23 Image © see bottom of page |
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