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| | Images Of Cumbria - Parish of Kirkby-Londale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | This parish in bounded by Yorkshire, Lancashire, and the parishes of Burton and Kendal, and comprises the greater part of Lonsdale Ward, being about ten miles in length and from four to six in breadth. |
 | | In 1672, Queen Catharine granted a ninety-nine years' lease of this manor, with the exception of the mines, quarries, woods, andc., to Edward Wilson, of Casterton, for a fine of £50, and an annual rent of £12 6s. |
 | | The common, which was enclosed in 1815, and the low lands are fertile, and yield good crops of grain and grass. |
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