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Brayton Park, Brayton
Brayton Park
Brayton Hall
locality:-   Brayton
civil parish:-   Aspatria (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   park
locality type:-   building/s (once) 
coordinates:-   NY16524271 (etc) 
1Km square:-   NY1642
10Km square:-   NY14

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 36 6) 
placename:-  Brayton 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.
"Brayton Hall"
at NY16884251. 

evidence:-   old map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd) 
placename:-  Brayton Hall
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.
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"Brayton Hall / Sir Gilfried Lawson Bt."
house in 
double outline with suggested fence palings; a park, and trees, pond, etc 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library

evidence:-   road book:- Cary 1798 (2nd edn 1802) 
placename:-  Brayton Hall
source data:-   Road book, itineraries, Cary's New Itinerary, by John Cary, 181 Strand, London, 2nd edn 1802.
image CY38p555, button  goto source
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page 555-556  "Between Waverton and West Newton is Brayton Hall, Sir Wilfrid Lawson, Bart."
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page 557-558  "Between Waverton and Aspatria, on l. is Brayton Hall, Sir Wilfrid Lawson, Bart."
item:-  JandMN : 228.2
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evidence:-   old map:- Cooke 1802
placename:-  Brayton Hall
source data:-   Map, Cumberland, scale about 15.5 miles to 1 inch, by George Cooke, 1802, bound in Gray's New Book of Roads, 1824, published by Sherwood, Jones and Co, Paternoster Road, London, 1824.
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"Brayton Hall"
building AND outline of fence palings; park 
item:-  Hampshire Museums : FA2000.62.2
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evidence:-   old map:- Wallis 1810 (Cmd) 
placename:-  Brayton Hall
source data:-   Road map, hand coloured engraving, Cumberland, scale about 16 miles to 1 inch, by James Wallis, 77 Berwick Stree, Soho, London, 1810.
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"Brayton Hall"
House and outline with fence palings; park 
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2009.81.10
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evidence:-   old map:- Hall 1820 (Cmd) 
placename:-  Brayton Hall
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Cumberland, scale about 21 miles to 1 inch, engraved by Sidney Hall, published by S Leigh, 18 Strand, London, 1820-31.
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"Brayton Hall"
outline of fence palings; park and house 
item:-  JandMN : 91
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evidence:-   old map:- Ford 1839 map
placename:-  Brayton Hall
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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"Brayton Hall"
Park. 
item:-  JandMN : 100.1
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evidence:-   old map:- Garnett 1850s-60s H
placename:-  Brayton Hall
source data:-   Map of the English Lakes, in Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, 1850s-60s.
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"Brayton Hall"
blocks, settlement 
item:-  JandMN : 82.1
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evidence:-   old print:- Calverley 1899
item:-  fibulaBrayton Fibula
source data:-   Found when deepening a fish pond at Brayton Park, now in a museum in York:-
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from Pennant. 
item:-  JandMN : 190
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