Gilsland Spa Hotel, Gilsland | ||
Gilsland Spa Hotel | ||
locality:- | Gilsland | |
civil parish:- | Waterhead (formerly Cumberland) | |
county:- | Cumbria | |
locality type:- | inn | |
locality type:- | hotel | |
coordinates:- | NY63596769 | |
1Km square:- | NY6367 | |
10Km square:- | NY66 | |
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BOV58.jpg (taken 21.3.2008) BOV68.jpg (taken 21.3.2008) |
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evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 13 5) placename:- Shaw's Hotel |
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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 map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd) placename:- Shaws |
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source data:- | Map, hand coloured engraving, 3x2 sheets, The County of Cumberland, scale about 1
inch to 1 mile, by Thomas Donald, engraved and published by Joseph Hodskinson, 29
Arundel Street, Strand, London, 1774. D4NY66NW.jpg "Shaws" block or blocks, labelled in lowercase; a hamlet or just a house item:- Carlisle Library : Map 2 Image © Carlisle Library |
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evidence:- | descriptive text:- Ford 1839 (3rd edn 1843) placename:- Shaws Hotel |
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source data:- | Guide book, A Description of Scenery in the Lake District, by
Rev William Ford, published by Charles Thurnam, Carlisle, by W
Edwards, 12 Ave Maria Lane, Charles Tilt, Fleet Street, William
Smith, 113 Fleet Street, London, by Currie and Bowman,
Newcastle, by Bancks and Co, Manchester, by Oliver and Boyd,
Edinburgh, and by Sinclair, Dumfries, 1839. goto source Page 115:- "..." "... From the Railway Station at Rose Hill, a good carriage-road leads up in a gradual ascending sweep, ... until it reaches the Shaws Hotel, which stands upon an eminence skirted with fine wood. This hotel has recently been thoroughly repaired, enlarged, and remodelled, and now presents good accommodation to family parties and visitors, whether for health or pleasure. From a terrace-garden in front there is an extensive view, embracing a considerable portion of the line of the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway, reaching from Greenhead down towards Naworth Castle." "Behind the hotel is a field with walks and seats, exhibiting various windings of the Irthing, in its course from the wild fells in the waste. ..." |
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BOV69.jpg (taken 21.3.2008) BOV72.jpg One of the other buildings on the site. (taken 21.3.2008) |
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hearsay:- |
A thatched house called The Shaws used to stand on this site. In 1611 it was rented
by Lord William Howard to Andrew Thirwall, farmer. |
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In the 18th century a simple hotel was built; The Shaws Hotel. Captain Scott, later
Sir Walter Scott, of the Edinburgh Volunteers, met with Charlotte Carpentier at a
ball here July 1797. The hotel was enlarged in 1840, but it all burnt down in a fire,
1859. |
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The present building was erected by George Gill Mounsey in an italian style designed
by James Stewart, architect, Carlisle. |
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The building was purchesed by the Cooperative Society, to be a convalescent home,
1902. |
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