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| Pool Bank Farm, Pool Bank | ||
| Pool Bank Farm | ||
| locality:- | Pool Bank | |
| civil parish:- | Crosthwaite and Lyth (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | buildings | |
| coordinates:- | SD43018782 | |
| 1Km square:- | SD4387 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD48 | |
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| evidence:- | probably hearth tax returns:- Hearth Tax 1675 placename:- Powbanke |
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| source data:- | Records, hearth tax survey returns, Westmorland, 1674/75. "Powbanke" in "Witherslack" |
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| evidence:- | old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s placename:- Pool Bank item:- spinning gallery; gallery |
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| source data:- | Photograph, Pool Bank, Crosthwaite and Lyth, Westmorland, by Herbert Bell, photographer,
Ambleside, Westmorland, 1897. click to enlargeHB0139.jpg Vol.2 no.139 in an album, Examples of Early Domestic and Military Architecture in Westmorland, assembled 1910. ms at bottom:- "139. Pool Bank. Heversham. K." item:- Armitt Library : 1958.3166.33 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | site plan:- Historical Monuments 1936 placename:- South House |
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| source data:- | Site plan, uncoloured lithograph, South House, Pool Bank Crosthwaite and Lyth, Westmorland,
scale about 1 to 290, published by Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England,
London, 1936. click to enlargeHMW066.jpg On p.91 of the Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Westmorland. printed, lower right "SOUTH HOUSE, POOL BANK / CROSTHWAITE AND LYTH" RCHME no. Wmd, Crosthwaite and Lyth 4 item:- Armitt Library : A745.66 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:- Pool Bank Farm item:- date stone (1693) |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "POOL BANK FARMHOUSE / / / CROSTHWAITE AND LYTH / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 77117 / SD4300987817" |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 item:- date stone |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "BARN IMMEDIATELY TO NORTH OF POOL BANK FARMHOUSE / / / CROSTHWAITE AND LYTH / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 77118 / SD4302687855" |
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| hearsay:- |
There is a spinning gallery here at the back of the house. |
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| Over the front door is a date stone:- |
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| "H / I K / 1693" |
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| hearsay:- |
A wife was walled up in a small room, and starved. Clanking chains are still sometimes
heard, doors open and close without a hand ... |
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