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Moor Crag, Ghyll Head
Moor Crag
locality:-   Ghyll Head
locality:-   Storrs
civil parish:-   Cartmel Fell (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   SD39179248
1Km square:-   SD3992
10Km square:-   SD39

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Moor Crag
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"MOOR CRAG / / NEWBY BRIDGE ROAD / CARTMEL FELL / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / I / 421170 / SD3917892481"

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"COACH HOUSE TO MOOR CRAG OPPOSITE ENTRANCE GATEWAY / / NEWBY BRIDGE ROAD / CARTMEL FELL / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 421174 / SD3911592644"

notes:-  
Design by Charles Francis Annesley Voysey, 1899-1901, for J W Buckley. Voysey also made an outline plan for the garden.

Hyde, Matthew & Whittaker, Esme &Corbet, Val (photographer): 2014: Arts and Craft Houses in the Lake District: Lincoln, Francis (London):: ISBN 978 0 7112 3408 6

notes:-  
Moor Crag was built 1899 for J R Buckley, textile manufacturer, on the Storrs estate. The architect was C F A Voysey, it was built by Joseph Pattinson. Gardens were designed by Thomas H Mawson.

Waymark, Janet: 2009: Thomas Mawson, Life, Gardens and Landscapes: Lincoln, Francis (London)

hearsay:-  
On the east shore of Windermere with gardens sloping down to the lake. Designed by Voysey, 1899; gardens by Thomas Mawson.

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