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Bardsea Hall, Bardsea
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Bardsea Hall
locality:-   Bardsea
civil parish:-   Urswick (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   SD30077480 (?) 
1Km square:-   SD3074
10Km square:-   SD37

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Lan 16 12) 
placename:-  Bardsea Hall
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:- West 1784 map
placename:-  Bardsea Hall
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, A Map of the Lakes in Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, engraved by Paas, 53 Holborn, London, about 1784.
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item:-  Armitt Library : A1221.1
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evidence:-   old text:- Camden 1789 (Gough Additions) 
placename:-  Bardsay Hall
source data:-   Book, Britannia, or A Chorographical Description of the Flourishing Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, by William Camden, 1586, translated from the 1607 Latin edition by Richard Gough, published London, 1789.
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Page 143:-  "Bardsay hall, the seat of a family of its name now extinct, and afterwards of lord Molyneux, is an antient building on rock with costly gardens, now belonging to Wilson Braddyll, esq."

evidence:-   old print:- Jopling 1843
source data:-   Print, Bardsea Hall, Bardsea, Urswick, Lancashire, by Charles M Jopling, published by Whittaker and Co, Ave Maria Lane, London and by Stephen Soulby, Ulverston, Cumberland, 1843.
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On p.23 of a Sketch of Furness and Cartmel, by Charles M Jopling. 
item:-  Armitt Library : A1636.5
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notes:-  
site of a medieval hall

Perriam, D R &Robinson, J: 1998: Medieval Fortified Buildings of Cumbria: CWAAS:: ISBN 1 873124 23 6; illustration

notes:-  
Demolished 1930s

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