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| Mechi, Blennerhasset | ||
| Mechi | ||
| Mechi Farm | ||
| Blennerhasset Farm | ||
| locality:- | Blennerhasset | |
| civil parish:- | Blennerhasset and Torpenhow (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | buildings | |
| coordinates:- | NY17414117 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY1741 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY14 | |
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 CGI37.jpg The clock tower. (taken 4.8.2017)  CGI38.jpg Name sign. "MECHI" (taken 4.8.2017) |
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| Most of this place is out of sight. |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 36 10) placename:- Blennerhasset Farm |
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| 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. |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:- Mechi Farm |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "MECHI FARMHOUSE / / / BLENNERHASSET AND TORPENHOW / ALLERDALE / CUMBRIA / II / 72317 / NY1741141172" |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:- Mechi Farm |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "GAS HOUSE NORTH EAST OF MECHI FARMHOUSE / / / BLENNERHASSET AND TORPENHOW / ALLERDALE / CUMBRIA / II / 72320 / NY1740941178" |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "BARN/IMPLEMENT STORE WITH CLOCK TOWER EAST OF MECHI FARMHOUSE / / / BLENNERHASSET AND TORPENHOW / ALLERDALE / CUMBRIA / II / 72318 / NY1745141121" |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "BYRES AND BARN NORTH EAST OF MECHI FARMHOUSE / / / BLENNERHASSET AND TORPENHOW / ALLERDALE / CUMBRIA / II / 72319 / NY1739241140" |
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| hearsay:- |
William Lawson, born at Brayton, 1836, believed it was:- |
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| "everybody's duty to devote his private property to the public good" |
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| After visiting an experimental farm in Sussex, he bought Blennerhasset Farm, 1862,
and renamed it The Model Farm, later Mechi Farm. He introduced new ideas: cattle in
large byres with waste colleected in underground tanks, for liquid manure; a steam
plough, the first in Cumberland; a gas plant, to supply light for himself and the
village; etc. After potato blight, and a fire at the farm, he sold it to his brother
Wilfrid Lawson, 1872. |
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