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Towtop Kirk is an irregular circular-shaped enclosure in Westmorland. Approximately 130 feet in diameter which is surrounded by a low turf-covered bank of piled small stones up to 12 feet wide and 2 and a half feet high. The presence of a building within the enclosure indicates its likely use as an early chapel site or hermitage. Evidence of Christian use of the site came from a stone bearing a rudely cut cross found here; this apparently being confirmed by the 'kirk' element of the traditional name for the site. It is within the council area of Westmorland and Furness.
Historic England Scheduled Monument 1011591.

Place Type: Ecclesiastical Monument
Historic County: Westmorland
Lat, Long: 54.554035,-2.7850955
Grid Reference: NY 4932 1792
Civil Parish: Bampton CP
Council Area: Westmorland and Furness CA
Police Area: Cumbria PA

GBPN ID: 305165
Entry Type: Main listing (P)
URL: https://gazetteer.org.uk/place/Towtop_Kirk,_Westmorland_305165

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