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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 "CLEATOR MOOR":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  CARLISLE	Cumberland	CARLISLE , a city and a district in Cumberland; and a diocese in Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Lancashire The city stands on	Imperial
  Cleator	Cumberland	Cleator , par., W. Cumberland, 2947 ac. (29 water), pop. 10,420; P.O., T.O.; contains Cleator Lane End; P.O.; and Cleator Mill , with school; is conterminous with Cleator Moor	Bartholomew
  CLEATOR	Cumberland	CLEATOR , three villages and a parish in White-haven district, Cumberland. The villages are Cleator, Cleator Moor, and Cleator-Lane	Imperial
  CUMBERLAND	Cumberland	moor game abounds. The soils are variously strong fertile loam, heavy wet loam, light dry loam, and poor peaty mould. About one-third of the entire area n waste. The crops and culture are much controlled by the character of the soils, but extensively include good rotations. Husbandry, in all departments, has undergone much recent improvement. Multitudes of farms are small; and many are let by customary tenure. The dairy commands considerable attention, and produces excellent butter. The cattle are variously long horns, short horns, Galloways, and crosses. The sheep are partly Cheviots, partly a black-faced, mixed, hardy breed	Imperial
  ENNERDALE	Cumberland	Cleator r. station, and 6 z ESE of Whitehaven. Post town, Cleator, under Whitehaven. Acres of the township, 17, 782; of which 784 are water. Real property, £1, 666. Pop., 254. Houses, 47. The chapelry is larger than the township. Rated property, £1, 915. Pop., 499. The property is much subdivided. The surface is largely moorish and mountainous. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Carlisle. Value, £75.* Patron, Henry Curwen, Esq. The church is neat and good; and the churchyard contains monuments. But, at the date of the scene of Wordsworth's Pastoral	Imperial
  MOOR-ROW	Cumberland	MOOR-ROW , a railway station in Cumberland; on the Whitehaven and Cleator railway, at the junction of the branch to Egremont	Imperial
  Rowrah	Cumberland	Rowrah , ry. sta., Cumberland, 5 miles NE. of Cleator Moor.	Bartholomew
  Wath	Cumberland	Wath .-- 1 mile from Cleator Moor, Cumberland; P.O.	Bartholomew
  Yeathouse	Cumberland	Yeathouse , ry. sta., Cumberland, 2 miles NE. of Cleator Moor.	Bartholomew

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