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Walker House, Seathwaite
Walker House
locality:-   Seathwaite
civil parish:-   Dunnerdale-with-Seathwaite (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
locality type:-   parsonage (ex) 
coordinates:-   SD22889610
1Km square:-   SD2296
10Km square:-   SD29

photograph
BXD94.jpg  Walker House.
(taken 24.8.2012)  
photograph
BXD95.jpg  Walker House, the old pasonage on the left.
(taken 24.8.2012)  
evidence:-   old text:- Martineau 1855
source data:-   Guide book, A Complete Guide to the English Lakes, by Harriet Martineau, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, and by Whittaker and Co, London, 1855; published 1855-76.
image MNU1P110, button  goto source
Page 110:-  "... Just outside the wall [of Holy Trinity Church] is a white cottage, so humble that the stranger thinks it cannot be the parsonage: yet the climbing roses and glittering evergreens, and clear lattices, and pure uncracked walls, look as if it might be. He walks slowly past the porch, and sees some one who tells him that it is indeed Robert Walker's dwelling, and courteously invites him in to see the scene of those life-long charities. Here it was that the distant parishioners were fed on Sundays with broth, for which the whole week's supply of meat was freely bestowed. Hither it was that in winter he sent the benumbed children, in companies, from the school in the church, to warm themselves at the single household fire, ..."
evidence:-   old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s
source data:-   Photograph, black and white, Seathwaite, Dunnerdale-with-Seathwaite, Lancashire, by Herbert Bell, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s.
image  click to enlarge
HB0506.jpg
item:-  Armitt Library : ALPS169
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personal
person:-   clergyman
 : Walker, Robert
place:-   birthplace (?) / home
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