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Ashes, Nether Staveley
Ashes
civil parish:-   Nether Staveley (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   SD46979697
1Km square:-   SD4696
10Km square:-   SD49

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 33 10) 
placename:-  Ashes
source data:-   Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25 inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948.

evidence:-   old map:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd) 
placename:-  Ashes
source data:-   Map, 4 sheets, The County of Westmoreland, scale 1 inch to 1 mile, surveyed 1768, and engraved and published by Thomas Jefferys, London, 1770.
image
J5SD49NE.jpg
"Ashes"
circle, labelled in italic lowercase text; settlement, farm, house, or hamlet? 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Ashes Farm, The
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"THE ASHES FARMHOUSE / / / NETHER STAVELEY / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 76483 / SD4697196973"

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"BARN TO NORTH EAST OF THE ASHES FARMHOUSE AT NGR 469969 / / / NETHER STAVELEY / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 436265 / SD4699996981"

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"BARN TO THE NORTH OF THE ASHES AT NGR 469970 / / / NETHER STAVELEY / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 76485 / SD4698097008"

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"GARDEN WALLS, RAILINGS, GATE AND GATE PIERS TO NORTH OF THE ASHES FARMHOUSE / / / NETHER STAVELEY / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 76484 / SD4697596985"

hearsay:-  
Date stone, barn archway:-
"[R / R I / 1737]"

Palmer 1945

hearsay:-  
Dated beam in barn:-
"[R P 1737]"
Spice cupboard, known as the Devil's Cupboard, having the initials of Robert Philipson, Robin the Devil:-
"P / R S / 1723"
In a cupboard on the ground floor is a shrine, and there is another in the garden. The Philipson Family were roman catholic.

Palmer, J H & McIntire, W T (ed): 1945: Historic Farmhouses in and around Westmorland: Westmorland Gazette (Kendal, Westmorland)

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