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motte, Irthington
locality:-   Irthington
civil parish:-   Irthington (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   motte
coordinates:-   NY49946151
1Km square:-   NY4961
10Km square:-   NY46


photograph
BOX23.jpg (taken 29.3.2008)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 17 7) 
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.
"Castle (Site of)"

hearsay:-  
Robert de Vaux, Baron of Gilsland, had his castle here in early norman times. King John stayed here in 1201.

notes:-  
motte; site of a manor house, now demolished;

Perriam, D R &Robinson, J: 1998: Medieval Fortified Buildings of Cumbria: CWAAS:: ISBN 1 873124 23 6; illustration

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