Old Cumbria Gazetteer

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	Bardsea Hall, Bardsea
	gone
	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. Ws02SD27.jpg item:-  Armitt Library : A1221.1 Image © see bottom of page
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.   goto source 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.   click to enlarge JP1E04.jpg On p.23 of a Sketch of Furness and Cartmel, by Charles M Jopling.  item:-  Armitt Library : A1636.5 Image © see bottom of page
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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