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Selside Hall, Whitwell and Selside
Selside Hall
Street:-   Firtree Lane
locality:-   Selside
civil parish:-   Whitwell and Selside (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
locality type:-   haunted house
coordinates:-   SD53459904
1Km square:-   SD5399
10Km square:-   SD59

photograph
BMK05.jpg (taken 12.7.2006)  
evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 34 5) 
placename:-  Selside 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:- Saxton 1579
placename:-  Selsted Hall
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmorlandiae et Cumberlandiae Comitatus ie Westmorland and Cumberland, scale about 5 miles to 1 inch, by Christopher Saxton, London, engraved by Augustinus Ryther, 1576, published 1579-1645.
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Building, symbol for a hamlet, which may or may not have a nucleus.  "Selsted hall"
item:-  private collection : 2
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evidence:-   old map:- Speed 1611 (Wmd) 
placename:-  Selsted Hall
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, The Countie Westmorland and Kendale the Cheif Towne, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Speed, 1610, published by George Humble, Popes Head Alley, London, 1611-12.
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"Selsted Hall"
circle, tower 
item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.14.5
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evidence:-   old map:- Jansson 1646
placename:-  Selstedhall
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Cumbria and Westmoria, ie Cumberland and Westmorland, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Jansson, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1646.
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JAN3SD59.jpg
"Selstedhall"
Buildings and tower. 
item:-  JandMN : 88
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evidence:-   old map:- Seller 1694 (Wmd) 
placename:-  Selsted Hall
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmorland, scale about 8 miles to 1 inch, by John Seller, 1694.
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SEL7.jpg
"Selsted hall"
circle, italic lowercase text; settlement or house 
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2007.38.87
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evidence:-   old map:- Morden 1695 (Wmd) 
placename:-  Selside Hall
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmorland, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by Robert Morden, published by Abel Swale, the Unicorn, St Paul's Churchyard, Awnsham, and John Churchill, the Black Swan, Paternoster Row, London, 1695.
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"Selside Hall"
Circle. 
item:-  JandMN : 24
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evidence:-   old map:- Badeslade 1742
placename:-  Selsted Hall
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, A Map of Westmorland North from London, scale about 10 miles to 1 inch, with descriptive text, by Thomas Badeslade, London, engraved and published by William Henry Toms, Union Court, Holborn, London, 1742.
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"Selsted Hall"
circle, italic lowercase text; village, hamlet or locality 
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2007.38.62
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evidence:-   probably old map:- Simpson 1746 map (Wmd) 
placename:-  Selsted Hall
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Westmorland, scale about 8 miles to 1 inch, printed by R Walker, Fleet Lane, London, 1746.
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SMP2NYK.jpg
"Selsted Hall"
Building. 
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2007.38.59
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evidence:-   old map:- Bowen and Kitchin 1760
placename:-  Solsted 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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"Solsted Hall"
circle and flag? 
item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.14.10
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evidence:-   old map:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd) 
placename:-  Sellside 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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"Sellside Hall"
circle, labelled in italic lowercase text; settlement, farm, house, or hamlet? 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland
evidence:-   old map:- Cary 1789 (edn 1805) 
placename:-  Sellside Hall
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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"Sellside Hall"
block/s, labelled in italic lowercase; house, or hamlet 
item:-  JandMN : 129
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evidence:-   old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s
placename:-  Selside Hall
source data:-   Photograph, Selside Hall, Whitwell and Selside, Westmorland, by Herbert Bell, photographer, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1895.
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Vol.2 no.163 in an album, Examples of Early Domestic and Military Architecture in Westmorland, assembled 1910. 
ms at bottom:-  "163. Selside Hall. Kendal. K."
item:-  Armitt Library : 1958.3166.57
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evidence:-   site plan:- Historical Monuments 1936
placename:-  Selside Hall
source data:-   Site plan, uncoloured lithograph, Selside Hall, Whitwell and Selside, Westmorland, scale about 1 to 290, published by Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, London, 1936.
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On p.244 of the Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Westmorland. 
printed, upper right  "SELSIDE HALL / WHITWELL AND SELSIDE"
RCHME no. Wmd, Whitwell and Selside 5 
item:-  Armitt Library : A745.144
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evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Selside Hall
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"SELSIDE HALL AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDING / / FIRTREE LANE / WHITWELL AND SELSIDE / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II[star] / 75768 / SD5345999043"
evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"OUTBUILDING IMMEDIATELY TO SOUTH-EAST OF SELSIDE HALL / / FIRTREE LANE / WHITWELL AND SELSIDE / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 75769 / SD5347699034"
hearsay:-  
 Built 14th century, home of the Thornburgh Family. There is a priest's hole.
hearsay:-  
 A ghost in the 15th-16th century was a nuisance, putting out candles and lamps. It was possibly the ghost of a sheep stealer who was hanged from a yew tree in the grounds of the hall.
notes:-  
 15th and 16th century towers, and hall

Perriam, D R &Robinson, J: 1998: Medieval Fortified Buildings of Cumbria: CWAAS:: ISBN 1 873124 23 6; plan and illustration
hearsay:-  
 There was said to be a ghost on the stairs who blew out your candle.
Another story was of a dobbie who troubled the outside. One night the men set guard at all the gaps and gates round the farm, and the dobbie appeared in a gap, and one of the men fled in terror. It was a hungry white greyhound looking for scraps of food.

Palmer 1945
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