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Helbeck Hall, Helbeck
Helbeck Hall
Hellbeck Hall
locality:-   Helbeck
civil parish:-   Helbeck (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   NY79211578
1Km square:-   NY7915
10Km square:-   NY71


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BVC08.jpg (taken 29.7.2011)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 16 11) 
placename:-  Hillbeck 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:- Bowen and Kitchin 1760
placename:-  Helbeck 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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BO18NY71.jpg
"[Helbeck] Hall"
circle and line 
item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.14.10
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   old map:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd) 
placename:-  Hillbeck 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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"Hillbeck Hall"
house with trees and an avenue 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland

evidence:-   old text:- Pennant 1773
placename:-  Helbec Hall
source data:-   Book, A Tour from Downing to Alston Moor, 1773, by Thomas Pennant, published by Edward Harding, 98 Pall Mall, London, 1801.
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Pennant's Tour 1773, page 137  "..."
"On leaving Brough, I saw, on the right, Helbec-hall, seated in a wood. This, and the manor of the same name, had been the property of the Helbecs as early as the reign of Henry II. In that of Edward II. it passed into the family of the Blenkensops, by a marriage with Isabella, daughter"
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Pennant's Tour 1773, page 138  "and heiress to Thomas de Hellebec, knight of the shire for the county, and last male heir of the name. The Blenkensops flourished here till the time of Charles I. when one of the name of Thomas alienated the estates of the family."

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Helbeck Hall
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"HELBECK HALL WITH RETAINING WALL TO REAR / / / HELBECK / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II[star] / 73342 / NY7921215772"

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"COACH HOUSE TO NORTH WEST OF HELBECK HALL / / / HELBECK / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 73343 / NY7916315789"

notes:-  
site of a tower

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

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