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| Halfway House, Penrith | ||
| Halfway House | ||
| Mill Cross | ||
| Meal Cross | ||
| Street:- | Bridge Lane | |
| locality:- | Penrith | |
| civil parish:- | Penrith (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | buildings | |
| coordinates:- | NY52002951 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY5229 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY52 | |
| references:- | Clarke 1787 |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 59 5) placename:- Halfway House |
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| 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. |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Clarke 1787 placename:- Halfway House placename:- Mill Cross placename:- Meal Cross item:- plague |
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| 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. goto sourcePage 14:- "..." "Nearly half way between Emont Bridge and Penrith stands an house, called from its situation Halfway-House, but formerly Mill or Meal-Cross, from the following circumstance." "During the dreadful plague which visited this country in the year 1598, and almost depopulated Penrith, (no less than 2260 in the town falling victims to this merciless disease,) the Millers and Villagers refused to bring their commodities into the town to market for fear of the infection. The inhabitants, therefore were under the necessity of meeting them here, and performing a kind of quarantine before they were allowed to buy any thing; and for this purpose they erected a cross, which remains to this day. ..." |
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