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Millbeck Hall, Millbeck
Millbeck Hall
locality:-   Millbeck
civil parish:-   Underskiddaw (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   NY25582610
1Km square:-   NY2526
10Km square:-   NY22
references:-   Bowen 1720


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BPV70.jpg (taken 17.12.2008)  
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BPV71.jpg  Date stone:-
"1592 QUORSUM M W / VIVERE. MORI. MORI. VIVERE. / NICHOLAUS WILLIAMSON" (taken 17.12.2008)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 56 14) 
placename:-  Millbeck 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:- Ogilby 1675 (plate 96) 
placename:-  Milbeck Hall
source data:-   Road strip map, hand coloured engraving, the Road from Kendal to Cockermouth, and the Road from Egremond to Carlisle, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, by John Ogilby, London, 1675.
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In mile 31, Cumberland.  "Milbeck Hall"
large house on the right of the road. 
item:-  JandMN : 22
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evidence:-   old map:- Bowen 1720 (plate 260) 
placename:-  Milbeck Hall
source data:-   Road strip map, uncoloured engraving, pl.260, The Road from Kendal to Cockermouth, scale about 2 miles to 1 inch, with sections in Westmorland and Cumberland, published by Emanuel Bowen, St Katherines, London, 1720.
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At mile 32. 
item:-  private collection : 1.260
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evidence:-   old map:- Bowen and Kitchin 1760
placename:-  Millbeck Hall
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, A New Map of the Counties of Cumberland and Westmoreland Divided into their Respective Wards, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Emanuel Bowen and Thomas Kitchin et al, published by T Bowles, Robert Sayer, and John Bowles, London, 1760.
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"Millbeck Hall"
no symbol 
item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.14.10
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evidence:-   old print:- Taylor 1892
placename:-  Millbeck Hall
item:-  date stone (1592)
source data:-   Print, Doorway, Millbeck Hall, Underskiddaw, Cumberland, published for the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, by Titus Wilson, Kendal, Westmorland, and by Charles Thurnam and Sons, Carlisle, Cumberland, 1892.
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Inscription '1592 QUORSUM M W / VIVERE. MORI. MORI. VIVERE. / NICHOLAUS WILLIAMSON'; roughly translated as 'whither to live to die or to die to live'. 
On p.321 of The Old Manorial Halls of Cumberland and Westmorland, by Michael Waistell Taylor. 
item:-  Armitt Library : A785.72
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evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Millbeck Hall
item:-  date stone (1592)
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"MILLBECK HALL AND ADJOINING BARN / / / UNDERSKIDDAW / ALLERDALE / CUMBRIA / II[star] / 72204 / NY2559526082"


photograph
BZT66.jpg (taken 28.12.2013)  

notes:-  
The house is beleieved to include a pele tower.

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

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