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school, Little Urswick
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Little Urswick School
locality:-   Little Urswick
civil parish:-   Urswick (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   school
coordinates:-   SD26277361 (?) 
1Km square:-   SD2673
10Km square:-   SD27

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Lan 16) 
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.
"Free Grammar School"
at Little Urswick 

notes:-  
Built at the order of Elizabeth I, 1585; the charter still exists. Elizabeth II visited them at their quatercentenary celebration, 1985.

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