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Tolson Hall, Strickland Ketel
Tolson Hall
locality:-   Burneside
civil parish:-   Strickland Ketel (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   SD49689542
1Km square:-   SD4995
10Km square:-   SD49

photograph
BMJ70.jpg (taken 11.7.2006)  
photograph
BMJ71.jpg  Gateway to the hall.
(taken 11.7.2006)  
evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 33 15) 
placename:-  Tolson 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:-  Townson 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
J5SD49NE.jpg
"Townson 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
 stained glass
evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Tolson Hall
item:-  date stone (1638); date stone (1639)
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"TOLSON HALL / / / STRICKLAND KETEL / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 76417 / SD4968195421"
evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"GATEWAY TO SOUTH OF TOLSON HALL AND ATTACHED WALLS / / / STRICKLAND KETEL / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 76418 / SD4995295355"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Gateway c.1800. Built as small folly in roughly cut limestone with embattled turrets, 4-centred arch with roughly cut voussoirs and crossed loop lights."

photograph
BXV78.jpg  Gate,
(taken 14.2.2013)  
photograph
BXV79.jpg  Gate,
(taken 14.2.2013)  
hearsay:-  
 Built 1638 for Thomas Tolson, tobacco merchant.
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