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Gawthrop

hamlet in Cumbria, England, UK

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 31, 2026
Entity authorityQ5528500 ↗
Source-derived summary

Gawthrop is a hamlet in the civil parish of Dent, in the Westmorland and Furness district, in the ceremonial county of Cumbria, England. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, it lies within the Yorkshire Dales National Park. From 1974 to 2023 it was in South Lakeland district. It is near the River Dee and the village of Dent.

Editorial summary

“Gawthrop” enters the record as hamlet in Cumbria, England, UK. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Gawthrop, hamlet and Cumbria can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1974, 2023—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Gawthrop, hamlet and Cumbria.
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“Gawthrop” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Gawthrop, hamlet and Cumbria provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 31, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5528500. Authority coordinates are 54.281, -2.474. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1974 and 2023.

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This entry incorporates text from “Gawthrop” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.