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Hackthorpe Hall, Lowther
Hackthorpe Hall
locality:-   Hackthorpe
civil parish:-   Lowther (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   NY54442286
1Km square:-   NY5422
10Km square:-   NY52


photograph
BLN17.jpg (taken 4.1.2006)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 8 9) 
placename:-  Hackthorpe 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 photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s
placename:-  Hackthorpe Hall
source data:-   Photograph, Hackthorpe Hall, Hackthorpe, Lowther, Westmorland, by Herbert Bell, photographer, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1895.
image  click to enlarge
HB0097.jpg
Vol.1 no.97 in an album, Examples of Early Domestic and Military Architecture in Westmorland, assembled 1910. 
ms at bottom:-  "97. Hackthorpe Hall. Lowther. W."
item:-  Armitt Library : 1958.3165.97
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Hackthorpe Hall
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"HACKTHORPE HALL / / / LOWTHER / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II[star] / 74343 / NY5445222838"

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"HACKTHORPE HALL / / / LOWTHER / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 74344 / NY5445322868"

story:-  
A boggle in the form of a calf led the farmer to a trough, under which he found treasure. The boggle was then at peace and haunted no more.

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