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Newbiggin Hall, Newbiggin
Newbiggin Hall
locality:-   Newbiggin
civil parish:-   Newbiggin (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   NY62802868
1Km square:-   NY6228
10Km square:-   NY62

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BME98.jpg (taken 1.6.2006)  
photograph
BME99.jpg  Coat of arms on a gatepost, Crackanthorpe Family.
(taken 1.6.2006)  
evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 4 12) 
placename:-  Newbiggin 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:-  Newbegging hall
source data:-   Records, hearth tax survey returns, Westmorland, 1674/75.
"Newbegging hall"
in  "Newbigging"
evidence:-   old map:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd) 
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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"Hall"
house 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland
evidence:-   old map:- Cary 1789 (edn 1805) 
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Westmoreland, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Cary, London, 1789; edition 1805.
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CY24NY62.jpg
"Hall"
house symbol; large house 
item:-  JandMN : 129
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evidence:-   old text:- Gents Mag
source data:-   Magazine, The Gentleman's Magazine or Monthly Intelligencer or Historical Chronicle, published by Edward Cave under the pseudonym Sylvanus Urban, and by other publishers, London, monthly from 1731 to 1922.
image G825A516, button  goto source
Gentleman's Magazine 1825 part 1 p.516  "Compendium of County History. - Westmorland."
"NEWBIGGIN HALL stands in a wooded sequestered vale. It is a low unique building, with a poetical inscription over its front door. ..."
evidence:-   old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s
placename:-  Newbiggin Hall
source data:-   Photograph, Newbiggin Hall from the South East, Newbiggin, Westmorland, by Herbert Bell, photographer, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1897.
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HB0047.jpg
Vol.1 no.47 in an album, Examples of Early Domestic and Military Architecture in Westmorland, assembled 1910. 
ms at bottom:-  "47. Newbiggin Hall from the South East. Newbiggin. E."
item:-  Armitt Library : 1958.3165.47
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evidence:-   old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s
placename:-  Newbiggin Hall
source data:-   Photograph, Newbiggin Hall from the South West, Newbiggin, Westmorland, by Herbert Bell, photographer, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1897.
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Vol.1 no.48 in an album, Examples of Early Domestic and Military Architecture in Westmorland, assembled 1910. 
ms at bottom:-  "48. Newbiggin Hall from the South West. Newbiggin. E."
item:-  Armitt Library : 1958.3165.48
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evidence:-   old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s
placename:-  Newbiggin Hall
item:-  date stone
source data:-   Photograph, Newbiggin Hall, Inscription over door, Newbiggin, Westmorland, by Herbert Bell, photographer, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1897.
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HB0049.jpg
The inscription reads, as well as I ca, '[Cristofer Crakanthorpe tylls y[ ] me calle / Wiche in my tym dyde bylde this halle / The yer of our lorde who lyst to se / A M fyve hundreth thyrty and thre]' 
The coat of arms on the left is of the Crackanthorpe Family. 
Vol.1 no.49 in an album, Examples of Early Domestic and Military Architecture in Westmorland, assembled 1910. 
ms at bottom:-  "49. Newbiggin Hall, Inscription over door. Newbiggin. E."
item:-  Armitt Library : 1958.3165.49
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evidence:-   old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s
placename:-  Newbiggin Hall
item:-  overmantel; fireplace; coat of arms; fire guard; trivet
source data:-   Photograph, Newbiggin Hall, Overmantel in the Entrance Hall, Newbiggin, Westmorland, by Herbert Bell, photographer, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1897.
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Vol.1 no.50 in an album, Examples of Early Domestic and Military Architecture in Westmorland, assembled 1910. 
The families are - Threlkeld, Blencowe, Sandford, Musgrave, Bellingham / Vaux, Wharton, Crackenthorpe, Dalston, Fetherstonehaugh 
ms at bottom:-  "50. Newbiggin Hall, Overmantel in the Entrance Hall. Newbiggin. E."
item:-  Armitt Library : 1958.3165.50
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evidence:-   old print:- Taylor 1892
placename:-  Newbiggin Hall
source data:-   Print, plan of Newbiggin Hall, Newbiggin, 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.152 of The Old Manorial Halls of Cumberland and Westmorland, by Michael Waistell Taylor. 
item:-  Armitt Library : A785.24
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evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Newbiggin Hall
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"NEWBIGGIN HALL / / / NEWBIGGIN / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II[star] / 423359 / NY6280228683"
evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"LABOURERS' QUARTERS AND BYRE TO SOUTH EAST OF NEWBIGGIN HALL / / / NEWBIGGIN / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 423362 / NY6286628624"
evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"COACH HOUSE AND BARN TO SOUTH EAST OF NEWBIGGIN HALL / / / NEWBIGGIN / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 423360 / NY6286028646"
evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"GROOMS' QUARTERS TO SOUTH EAST OF NEWBIGGIN HALL / / / NEWBIGGIN / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 423361 / NY6285728634"
evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"HEN HOUSE AND PIGSTY TO WEST OF NEWBIGGIN HALL / / / NEWBIGGIN / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 423363 / NY6275828669"
evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
item:-  date stone (1795)
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"WALLS ON THREE SIDES OF KITCHEN GARDEN AND HA HA WALL TO NORTH WEST OF NEWBIGGIN HALL / / / NEWBIGGIN / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 423365 / NY6264728746"

photograph
BWN50.jpg (taken 25.5.2012)  
photograph
BRF12.jpg  Bell tower by the gate to the church.
(taken 3.8.2009)  
photograph
BWN52.jpg  Farm buildings to th SE.
(taken 25.5.2012)  

photograph
BXX09.jpg  Heraldic display in entrance hall.
 
notes:-  
 hall with two 14th century towers, a third tower added 1461; various rebuildidngs since

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