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Helsfell Hall, Strickland Ketel
Helsfell Hall
civil parish:-   Strickland Ketel (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   SD49999383
1Km square:-   SD4993
10Km square:-   SD49
SummaryText:-   This hall is a listed building; the Helsfell Hall on present maps is an newer building.

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 38 3) 
placename:-  Helsfell Hall
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.
"Helsfell Hall"

evidence:-   old map:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd) 
placename:-  Helse Fell Hall
source data:-   Map, 4 sheets, The County of Westmoreland, scale 1 inch to 1 mile, surveyed 1768, and engraved and published by Thomas Jefferys, London, 1770.
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"Helse Fell Hall"
circle, labelled in italic lowercase text; settlement, farm, house, or hamlet? 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland

evidence:-   old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s
placename:-  Helsfell Hall
source data:-   Photograph, Helsfell Hall, Strickland Ketel, Westmorland, by Herbert Bell, photographer, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1895.
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Vol.2 no.155 in an album, Examples of Early Domestic and Military Architecture in Westmorland, assembled 1910. 
ms at bottom:-  "155. Helsfell Hall. Kendal. K."
item:-  Armitt Library : 1958.3166.49
Image © see bottom of page

notes:-  
hall

Perriam, D R &Robinson, J: 1998: Medieval Fortified Buildings of Cumbria: CWAAS:: ISBN 1 873124 23 6; illustration

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