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| Cark Hall, Cark | ||
| Cark Hall | ||
| locality:- | Cark | |
| civil parish:- | Lower Holker (formerly Lancashire) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | buildings | |
| coordinates:- | SD36517674 | |
| 1Km square:- | SD3676 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD37 | |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Lan 17 6) placename:- Cark Hall |
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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. "Cark Hall" |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Camden 1789 (Gough Additions) placename:- Cark Hall |
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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 143:- "... Christopher Rawlinson, only son of Curwen Rawlinson, of Cark hall, in Cartmell, collaterally related to all the foregoing [Rawlinsons of Graythwaite Old Hall], was born 1677, educated at Queen's college, Oxford, and eminently distinguished for his application to the Saxon and Northern literature, He published a beautiful edition of Alfred's translation of Boetius de Consolatione 1698, and left a large collection of MSS. among which are many relating to Westmorland and Cumberland. He died 1732, age 55, and was buried in a vault in the north transept of St. Alban's abbey church, where is a beautiful monument to his memory." |
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| notes:- |
Built by Thomas Pickering, 16th century; he was married in Cartmel, 1571. It passed
by marriage to the Curwen Family of Mysreside Hall, Flookburgh. Later it was owned
by the Rawlinson Family. The west wing was added in the 17th century. |
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