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Frith Hall, Ulpha
Frith Hall
civil parish:-   Ulpha (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
locality type:-   haunted house
coordinates:-   SD18909163
1Km square:-   SD1891
10Km square:-   SD19

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BOI49.jpg (taken 6.11.2007)  
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BOF51.jpg (taken 1.10.2007)  
evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 86 3) 
placename:-  Frith 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:- Donald 1774 (Cmd) 
placename:-  Froth Hall
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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"Froth Hall"
block or blocks, labelled in lowercase; a hamlet or just a house 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library

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BOI50.jpg (taken 6.11.2007)  
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BOI51.jpg (taken 6.11.2007)  
hearsay:-  
 Said to have been a hunting lodge for the Huddleston Fanily, 17th century. It was later, perhaps, an inn for travellers on the packhorse route.
Illicit marriages were said to have been performed here.
hearsay:-  
 A tale is told that a man was murdered here when it was an inn, and his ghost haunts the ruins.
notes:-  
 supposed fortified hunting lodge

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