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| Skiddaw House, Underskiddaw | ||
| Skiddaw House | ||
| locality:- | Skiddaw Forest | |
| civil parish:- | Underskiddaw (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | buildings | |
| coordinates:- | NY28712910 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY2829 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY22 | |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 56 7) placename:- Skiddaw House |
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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:- | old text:- Otley 1823 (5th edn 1834) item:- grouse |
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| source data:- | Guide book, A Concise Description of the English Lakes, the
mountains in their vicinity, and the roads by which they may be
visited, with remarks on the mineralogy and geology of the
district, by Jonathan Otley, published by the author, Keswick,
Cumberland now Cumbria, by J Richardson, London, and by Arthur
Foster, Kirkby Lonsdale, Cumbria, 1823; published 1823-49,
latterly as the Descriptive Guide to the English Lakes. goto sourcePage 54:- "... We are now upn the verge of a tract bearing the name of Skiddaw Forest, although without a tree. Here the river Caldew takes its rise; and a keeper's lodge has been built by the Earl of Egremont for the protection of the grouse with which the heath is well stocked. ..." |
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| references:- |
There is historical information about the house at:- |
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| www.skiddawhouse.co.uk |
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| hearsay:- |
Pearson Dalton, shepherd, lived here with his dogs, 1922 to 1975. He walked to stay
with his sister at Fellside near Caldbeck at weekends. |
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| hearsay:- |
This is the scene of a murder by Uhland in 1854, in one of the Rogue Herries stories
by Hugh Walpole. |
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