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Maiden Castle, Matterdale
Maiden Castle
civil parish:-   Matterdale (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
locality type:-   religious house (suggested, unlikely) 
coordinates:-   NY44552467
1Km square:-   NY4424
10Km square:-   NY42

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 66 1) 
placename:-  Maidencastle
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.

evidence:-   old text:- Clarke 1787
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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"Upon the top of Dunmallard was a Monastery of Benedictines; and at place called Maiden Castle, behind the higher end of Sowlby Fell, was a convent of Nuns of the same order, the ruins of both of which may at this day be traced. These two houses had a parcel of land allotted to them in common, part of it lying in the manor of Dacre, and part in that of Water-Millock, but all within the parish of Dacre: the boundary begun at Dacre-Beck-foot, where it falls into the Emont, then followed Dacre-Beck till it meets Greeves-Beck; this it followed to a place called Red-Mire; from thence to Banks-Well; thence it followed the course of the water to Dob-Beck, and followed that to Ulswater; it then followed the course of Ulswater and Emont to Dacre-Beck foot."

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