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| Casterton School, Casterton | ||
| Casterton School | ||
| Clergy Daughters' School | ||
| locality:- | Casterton | |
| civil parish:- | Casterton (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | school (private, boarding) | |
| coordinates:- | SD62577970 | |
| 1Km square:- | SD6279 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD67 | |
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 BQB37.jpg Main building. (taken 6.2.2009)  BQB35.jpg Rear of main building, perhaps the [then] new Clergy Daughters School. (taken 6.2.2009) |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 48 5) placename:- Clergy Daughters' School |
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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. "Clergy Daughters School" |
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| evidence:- | old print:- Johnson c1900 placename:- Clergy Daughters' School |
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| source data:- | Print, halftone, Old Clergy Daughters' School, Cowan Bridge, and Tunstall Church,
Lancashire, Charlotte Bronte, and New Clergy Daughters' School, Casterton, Westmorland,
published by Thomas Johnson, 30 Church Street, Blackburn, Lancashire, about 1900. click to enlargeJSN410.jpg On p.27 in The Gossiping Guide to Kirkby Lonsdale. item:- Armitt Library : A1612.A10 Image © see bottom of page |
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| hearsay:- |
Funded by William Carus-Wilson as the Clergy Daughters' School at Cowan Bridge, 1823;
moved here 1833. |
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| The school register for 1824 includes the four Bronte sisters. |
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| Paley and Austin series | ||
| person:- | architect : Austin, Hubert J |
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| person:- | architect : Paley, Henry A |
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| date:- | 1929 to 1930 |
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| New classrooms. |
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