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• If you are looking for hills, rivers, castles ... or pretty much anything other than the "places" where people live and lived, you need to look in our collection of Historical Gazetteers. This contains the complete text of three gazetteers published in the late 19th century — over 90,000 entries. Although there are no descriptive gazetteer entries for placenames exactly matching your search term (other than those already linked to "places"), the following entries mention "KIRKBY THORE":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Bolton	Westmorland	miles from Kirkby Thore ry. sta. and 4 miles NW. of Appleby, on river Eden, 2791 ac., pop. 404; P.O.	Bartholomew
  BOLTON	Westmorland	Kirkby-Thore r. station, and 4 miles NNW of Appleby. It includes the hamlet of Bewley-Castle, and has a post	Imperial
  CARLISLE	Cumberland	Kirkby-Stephen, Lowther, Penrith, and Wigton. The deanery of Appleby includes the rectories of Asby, Dufton, Kirkby-Thore, Long Marton	Imperial
  Crossrigg Hall	Westmorland	Crossrigg Hall , seat, 2 miles SW. of Kirkby Thore, Westmorland.	Bartholomew
  GULLOM HOLME	Westmorland	hamlet in Milbourne township Kirkby-Thore parish, Westmoreland; on the river Troutheck, 5½ miles NNW of Appleby. Pop., 20.	Imperial
  Hale	Westmorland	Hale , hamlet, Kirkby Thore and Newbiggen pars., Westmorland, 5 miles NW. of Appleby.	Bartholomew
  HALE	Westmorland	HALE , a hamlet in Kirkby Thore and Newbiggin parishes, Westmoreland; 5½ miles NW of Appleby.	Imperial
  Kirkby Thore	Westmorland	Kirkby Thore , par., township, and vil. with ry. sta., in N. of Westmorland--par., 11,700 ac., pop. 1175; township	Bartholomew
  KIRKBY-THORE	Westmorland	KIRKBY-THORE , a village, a township, and a parish, in East Ward district, Westmoreland. The village stands on the river	Imperial
  Kirkland	Cumberland	Kirkby Thore sta. and 9 miles NE. of Penrith--par., 12,226 ac., pop. 898; township (Kirkland and Blencarn), 4066 ac., pop. 175.	Bartholomew
  KIRKLAND	Cumberland	Kirkby-Thore r. station, and 9 ENE of Penrith; and bears the name of Kirkland and Blencarn. Real property, £1, 599. Pop., 167. Houses	Imperial
  Maiden Way	Westmorland	Maiden Way , Roman road, Westmorland and Cumberland; was a branch of Watling Street, from Kirkby Thore, Westmorland, N. to Bewcastle, Cumberland.	Bartholomew
  MAIDEN-WAY	Cumberland Westmorland	Kirkby-Thore, in Westmoreland; and it went northward, over Cross-Fell, past Whitley Castle and Caervorran, or Magna-on-the-Wall	Imperial
  MARTON (LoNG)	Westmorland	Kirkby-Thore r. station, and 3½ NW by N of Appleby; and contains the village of Brampton-Croft's End. The parish	Imperial
  Milbourne	Westmorland	Kirkby Thore par., Westmorland, 6½ miles NW. of Appleby, 7957 ac., pop. 242; 1¼ m. SE. of vil. is the vil. of Milbourne	Bartholomew
  MILBOURNE	Westmorland	Kirkby-Thore parish, Westmoreland; on the Maidenway, adjacent to Cumberland, 3 miles N of Kirkby-Thore r. station, and 6½ NNW of Appleby	Imperial
  Temple Sowerby	Westmorland	Sowerby , township and ry. sta., Kirkby Thore par., Westmorland, 6 miles NW. of Appleby 1241 ac., pop. 420; P.O., T.O.	Bartholomew
  TEMPLE-SOWERBY	Westmorland	Kirkby-Thore parish, Westmoreland; on the Eden Valley railway, 6½ miles NW of Appleby-Post town, Kirkby-Thore, under	Imperial
  WESTMORELAND	Westmorland	interesting old churches are at Askham and Kirkby-Thore. The county gives the title of Earl to the family of Fane.	Imperial

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