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Newby Hall, Newby
Newby Hall
Newby Manor
locality:-   Newby
civil parish:-   Newby (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   NY59042125
1Km square:-   NY5921
10Km square:-   NY52


photograph
BSK92.jpg (taken 2.4.2010)  
photograph
BSK93.jpg  Coat of arms over the door, Nevinson.
(taken 2.4.2010)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 8 15) 
placename:-  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:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd) 
placename:-  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.
image
J5NY52SE.jpg
"Hall / Nevison Esqr."
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.
image
CY24NY52.jpg
"Hall"
house symbol; large house 
item:-  JandMN : 129
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s
placename:-  Newby Hall
item:-  coat of arms
source data:-   Photograph, Newby Hall, Newby, Westmorland, by Herbert Bell, photographer, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1895.
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HB0104.jpg
Vol.1 no.104 in an album, Examples of Early Domestic and Military Architecture in Westmorland, assembled 1910. 
ms at bottom:-  "104. Newby Hall. Morland. W."
item:-  Armitt Library : 1958.3165.104
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evidence:-   old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s
placename:-  Newby Hall
item:-  gate piers
source data:-   Photograph, Newby Hall, gate piers, Newby, Westmorland, by Herbert Bell, photographer, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1895.
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HB0105.jpg
Vol.1 no.105 in an album, Examples of Early Domestic and Military Architecture in Westmorland, assembled 1910. 
ms at bottom:-  "105. Newby Hall. Morland. W."
item:-  Armitt Library : 1958.3165.105
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evidence:-   old print:- Taylor 1892
placename:-  Newby Hall
source data:-   Print, halftone photograph, Newby Hall, Newby, 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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TY5017.jpg
Tipped in opposite p.104 of The Old Manorial Halls of Cumberland and Westmorland, by Michael Waistell Taylor. 
item:-  Armitt Library : A785.17
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evidence:-   site plan:- Historical Monuments 1936
placename:-  Newby Hall
source data:-   Site plan, uncoloured lithograph, Newby Hall, Newby, Westmorland, scale about 1 to 380, published by Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, London, 1936.
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HMW111.jpg
On p.184 of the Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Westmorland. 
printed, top  "NEWBY HALL"
RCHME no. Wmd, Newby 2 
item:-  Armitt Library : A745.112
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evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Newby Hall
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"NEWBY HALL AND AREA WALL TO NORTH / / / NEWBY / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II[star] / 74081 / NY5902521247"

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
item:-  date stone (1685)
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"GATEPIERS AND FORECOURT WALLS TO FRONT OF NEWBY HALL / / / NEWBY / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 74082 / NY5904521264"


photograph
BMD53.jpg (taken 29.5.2006)  

notes:-  
possible site of a medieval hall

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

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