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Thistlewood, Highbridge
Thistlewood
locality:-   Highbridge
civil parish:-   Castle Sowerby (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
locality type:-   castle
coordinates:-   NY39654363
1Km square:-   NY3943
10Km square:-   NY34


photograph
CEX40.jpg (taken 22.4.2016)  
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CEX41.jpg (taken 22.4.2016)  

evidence:-   old map:- Ford 1839 map
placename:-  Thistlewood
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Map of the Lake District of Cumberland, Westmoreland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by Charles Thurnam, Carlisle, and by R Groombridge, 5 Paternoster Row, London, 3rd edn 1843.
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FD02NY34.jpg
"Thistlewood"
item:-  JandMN : 100.1
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Thistlewood Farm
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"THISTLEWOOD FARMHOUSE / / / CASTLE SOWERBY / EDEN / CUMBRIA / I / 73730 / NY3961343612"


photograph
CEX42.jpg  Sign.
(taken 22.4.2016)  

hearsay:-  
15th century pele with 16th century additions. Closed to visits.

notes:-  
14th centuy tower and 17th century 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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