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Sockbridge Hall, Sockbridge
Sockbridge Hall
locality:-   Sockbridge
civil parish:-   Sockbridge and Tirril (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   NY50362703
1Km square:-   NY5027
10Km square:-   NY52


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CFP98.jpg (taken 21.10.2016)  
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CFP99.jpg (taken 21.10.2016)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 3 15) 
placename:-  Sockbridge 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:-   hearth tax returns:- Hearth Tax 1675
placename:-  Sockbridge hall
source data:-   Records, hearth tax survey returns, Westmorland, 1674/75.
"Sockbridge hall"
in  "Low winder"

evidence:-   old map:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd) 
placename:-  Sockbridge 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.
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"Sockbridge 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 text:- Clarke 1787
placename:-  Sockbridge Hall
source data:-   Guide book, A Survey of the Lakes of Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire, written and published by James Clarke, Penrith, Cumberland, and in London etc, 1787; published 1787-93.
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Page 41:-  "... Stockbridge Hall, now in ruins. It belongs to the Earl of Lonsdale, and came into that family at the same time and manner as Barton, viz. by the marriage of Frances, daughter of Lancelot Lancaster of Stockbridge Hall, to Sir Christopher Lowther."

evidence:-   old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s
placename:-  Sockbridge Hall
source data:-   Photograph, Sockbridge Hall, Sockbridge, Westmorland, by Herbert Bell, photographer, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1895.
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Vol.1 no.67 in an album, Examples of Early Domestic and Military Architecture in Westmorland, assembled 1910. 
ms at bottom:-  "67. Sockbridge Hall. Barton. W."
item:-  Armitt Library : 1958.3165.67
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s
placename:-  Sockbridge Hall
item:-  water but
source data:-   Photograph, Sockbridge Hall from the old Courtyard, Sockbridge, Westmorland, by Herbert Bell, photographer, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1895.
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Vol.1 no.68 in an album, Examples of Early Domestic and Military Architecture in Westmorland, assembled 1910. 
ms at bottom:-  "68. Sockbridge Hall from the old Courtyard. Barton. W."
item:-  Armitt Library : 1958.3165.68
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   old print:- Taylor 1892
placename:-  Sockbridge Hall
source data:-   Print, plan of Sockbridge Hall, Sockbridge and Tirril, Westmorland, 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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Tipped in opposite p.64 of The Old Manorial Halls of Cumberland and Westmorland, by Michael Waistell Taylor. 
item:-  Armitt Library : A785.8
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evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Sockbridge Hall
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"SOCKBRIDGE HALL AND FORMER GATEHOUSE ATTCHED TO SOUTH EAST ANGLE OF SOCKBRIDGE HALL / / / SOCKBRIDGE AND TIRRIL / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 74589 / NY5037527028"

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Sockbridge Hall
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"SOCKBRIDGE HALL WITH FORMER GATEHOUSE ATTACHED TO SOUTH EAST ANGLE OF SOCKBRIDGE HALL / / / SOCKBRIDGE AND TIRRIL / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 74588 / NY5036027037"

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"OUTBUILDING APPROXIMATELY 50 METRES TO SOUTH OF SOCKBRIDGE HALL / / / SOCKBRIDGE AND TIRRIL / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 74591 / NY5035226984"

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"BARN APPROXIMATELY 60 METRES WEST OF SOCKBRIDGE HALL / / / SOCKBRIDGE AND TIRRIL / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 74590 / NY5030627001"


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CFP97.jpg (taken 21.10.2016)  

notes:-  
14th century tower, demolished

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

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