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Grizedale Hall, Satterthwaite
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Grizedale Hall
locality:-   Grizedale
civil parish:-   Satterthwaite (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   SD33389430
1Km square:-   SD3394
10Km square:-   SD39

hearsay:-  
During World War II there was a prisoner of war camp here. Franz von Werra, pilot in the Luftwaffe was the only person to escape, but was recaptured. He was later moved to Canada, from where he escaped to the United States, and eventually to Germany, 1941.
Demolished 1952.

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