Lanercost, Cumbria

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Lanercost is a hamlet in Cumbria

Other current and historical names

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Lanercost within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Lanercost in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Lanercost (or Abbey Lanercost), par., Cumberland, on rivers Irthing and Kingwater and Roman Wall, 2½ miles NE. of Brampton, 38,185 ac. (209 water), pop. 1272; the church is a portion of priory founded in 1169; in the par. is the seat of Lanercost Abbey.

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