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Crookdake Hall, Crookdake
Crookdake Hall
locality:-   Crookdake
civil parish:-   Bromfield (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   NY19754430
1Km square:-   NY1944
10Km square:-   NY14

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 36 3) 
placename:-  Crookdake 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:- Saxton 1579
placename:-  Crockdale
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmorlandiae et Cumberlandiae Comitatus ie Westmorland and Cumberland, scale about 5 miles to 1 inch, by Christopher Saxton, London, engraved by Augustinus Ryther, 1576, published 1579-1645.
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Tower, symbol for a house, hall, tower, etc.  "Crockdale"
item:-  private collection : 2
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evidence:-   old map:- Jansson 1646
placename:-  Crockdake
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Cumbria and Westmoria, ie Cumberland and Westmorland, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Jansson, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1646.
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"Crockdake"
Buildings and tower. 
item:-  JandMN : 88
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evidence:-   old map:- Morden 1695 (Cmd) 
placename:-  Crokedake
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Cumberland, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Robert Morden, 1695, published by Abel Swale, the Unicorn, St Paul's Churchyard, Awnsham, and John Churchill, the Black Swan, Paternoster Row, London, 1695-1715.
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"Crokedake"
Circle, building and tower. 
item:-  JandMN : 90
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evidence:-   probably descriptive text:- Simpson 1746
placename:-  Croke Dake
source data:-   Atlas, three volumes of maps and descriptive text published as 'The Agreeable Historian, or the Compleat English Traveller ...', by Samuel Simpson, 1746.
image SMP4P197, button  goto source
"... Croke Dake, Mr. Ballendin's. ..."

evidence:-   old map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd) 
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, 3x2 sheets, The County of Cumberland, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, by Thomas Donald, engraved and published by Joseph Hodskinson, 29 Arundel Street, Strand, London, 1774.
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"Hall / L Ballentine Dykes Esqr."
house at Crookdake with trees around 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Crookdake Hall
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"CROOKDAKE HALL / / / BROMFIELD / ALLERDALE / CUMBRIA / II / 411225 / NY1971444333"

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
item:-  date stone (1840); date stone (1893)
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"BARNS TO EAST OF CROOKDAKE HALL / / / BROMFIELD / ALLERDALE / CUMBRIA / II / 411227 / NY1974744358"

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"WALL TO SOUTH OF CROOKDAKE HALL / / / BROMFIELD / ALLERDALE / CUMBRIA / II / 411226 / NY1972344314"

notes:-  
Possibly a fortified site, perhaps developed from a pele tower.

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

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