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| Hazelslack Tower, Beetham | ||
| Hazelslack Tower | ||
| locality:- | Hazelslack | |
| civil parish:- | Beetham (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | pele tower | |
| coordinates:- | SD47627881 | |
| 1Km square:- | SD4778 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD47 | |
| references:- | Ford 1839 |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 46 6) placename:- Hazelslack Tower |
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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 text:- Camden 1789 (Gough Additions) placename:- Helslack Tower |
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| source data:- | Book, Britannia, or A Chorographical Description of the Flourishing Kingdoms of England,
Scotland, and Ireland, by William Camden, 1586, translated from the 1607 Latin edition
by Richard Gough, published London, 1789. goto sourcePage 153:- "..." "Within this manor [Beetham etc] also is Helslack tower, now in ruins. ... [This and Arnside] towers seem to have been erected to guard the bay; as there are on the opposite side the vestiges of Broughton tower and Bazin tower, so there is Castle head upon the island in Lindal Pow, and higher up the moses of Methop, Ulva, and Foulsham were inaccessible. In the centre of the bay is Peel castle." |
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| evidence:- | possibly descriptive text:- Ford 1839 (3rd edn 1843) placename:- Hilslack Tower |
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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 152:- "..." "... The ruins of Hilslack and Arnside towers are not very distant; they seem to have been erected to guard the Bay of Morecambe. ..." |
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| evidence:- | old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s placename:- Hazelslack Tower |
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| source data:- | Photograph, Hazelslack Tower, Hazelslack, Beetham, Westmorland, by Herbert Bell, photographer,
Ambleside, Westmorland, 1894. click to enlargeHB0112.jpg Vol.2 no.112 in an album, Examples of Early Domestic and Military Architecture in Westmorland, assembled 1910. ms at bottom:- "112. Hazelslack Tower. Beetham. K." item:- Armitt Library : 1958.3166.6 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old print:- Taylor 1892 placename:- Hazleslack Tower |
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| source data:- | Print, halftone photograph, Hazleslack Tower, Beetham, Westmorland, published for
the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, by Titus Wilson,
Kendal, Westmorland, and by Charles Thurnam and Sons, Carlisle, Cumberland, 1892. click to enlargeTY5043.jpg Tipped in opposite p.215 of The Old Manorial Halls of Cumberland and Westmorland, by Michael Waistell Taylor. item:- Armitt Library : A785.43 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old print:- Taylor 1892 placename:- Hazelslack Tower |
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| source data:- | Print, plans of Arnside Tower, Arnside and Hazelslack Tower, Beetham, Westmorland,
published for the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society,
by Titus Wilson, Kendal, Westmorland, and by Charles Thurnam and Sons, Carlisle, Cumberland,
1892. click to enlargeTY5044.jpg Tipped in opposite p.216 of The Old Manorial Halls of Cumberland and Westmorland, by Michael Waistell Taylor. item:- Armitt Library : A785.44 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old print:- Curwen 1913 placename:- Hazleslack Tower |
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| source data:- | Print, halftone photograph, Hazleslack Tower, Hazelslack, Beetham, Westmorland, published
for the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society by Titus
Wilson, Kendal, Westmorland, 1913. click to enlargeCW0176.jpg Tipped in opposite p.375 of The Castles and Fortified Towers of Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire North of the Sands, by John F Curwen. printed at bottom:- "HAZLESLACK TOWER." item:- Armitt Library : A782.76 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | site plan:- Historical Monuments 1936 placename:- Hazelslack Tower |
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| source data:- | Site plan, uncoloured lithograph, Hazelslack Tower, Beetham, Westmorland, scale about
1 to 290, published by Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, London, 1936. click to enlargeHMW031.jpg On p.41 of the Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Westmorland. printed, upper right "HAZELSLACK / TOWER / BEETHAM / ..." RCHME no. Wmd, Beetham 3 item:- Armitt Library : A745.31 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:- Hazelslack Tower |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "HAZELSLACK TOWER / / / BEETHAM / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 76596 / SD4762778813" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "Tower, probably former solar block with Hall to East now demolished. Late C14 (R.C.H.M.). Roughly-coursed rubble. 4 storeys, part demolished. Scattered fenestration, mostly loop lights to ground floor with small square windows to upper floors. West side has 2-light window with trefoiled lights in square head at 3rd floor level. Large fireplace with segmental head to ground-floor in East side with smaller fireplace above and marks of gable of former adjoining building; original doorway with 2-centred-arched head in return wall of projecting part of tower. Interior has cross-wall, various fireplaces, some with segmental heads, base of open stone stairway becoming enclosed circular stair above, garderobes to south-west angle. See R.C.H.M. p.41 and Plate 77." |
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| hearsay:- |
Late 14th century pele tower. |
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| notes:- |
tower |
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| Perriam, D R &Robinson, J: 1998: Medieval Fortified Buildings of Cumbria: CWAAS::
ISBN 1 873124 23 6; plan and illustration |
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