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Gilthwaiterigg, Skelsmergh
Gilthwaiterigg
Street:-   Gilthwaiterigg Lane
civil parish:-   Skelsmergh (formerly Westmorland)
civil parish:-   Kendal (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   SD52119526
1Km square:-   SD5295
10Km square:-   SD59

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 33 16) 
placename:-  Gilthwaiterigg
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:-   hearth tax returns:- Hearth Tax 1675
placename:-  Gilthatrigge
source data:-   Records, hearth tax survey returns, Westmorland, 1674/75.
"Gilthatrigge"
in  "Patton and Skelsmoore"

evidence:-   old map:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd) 
placename:-  Scalthwaiterig Hall
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
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"Scalthwaiterig Hall"
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:-   old map:- Greenwood 1824
placename:-  Scalthwaiterigg Hall
source data:-   Maps, Map of the County of Westmorland, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, and Map of the County of Cumberland, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, etc, by C and J Greenwood, published by George Pringle jnr, 70 Queen Street, Cheapside, London, 1823 and 1824 respectively.
"Scalthwaiterigg Hall"

evidence:-   old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s
placename:-  Gillthwaiterigg
source data:-   Photograph, Gillthwaiterigg, Skelsmergh, Westmorland, by Herbert Bell, photographer, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1895.
image  click to enlarge
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Vol.2 no.153 in an album, Examples of Early Domestic and Military Architecture in Westmorland, assembled 1910. 
ms at bottom:-  "153. Gillthwaiterigg. Kendal. K."
item:-  Armitt Library : 1958.3166.47
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Gilthwaiterigg
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"GILTHWAITERIGG / / GILTHWAITERIGG LANE / KENDAL / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II[star] / 75373 / SD5208395323"

notes:-  
hall

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

person:-   bookseller
 : Duckett, James
place:-   birthplace (perhaps)
Hanged at Tyburn, London, for possessing catholic books, 1601.

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