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Crosby Ravensworth Hall, Crosby Ravensworth
Crosby Ravensworth Hall
Crosby Hall
locality:-   Crosby Ravensworth
civil parish:-   Crosby Ravensworth (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   NY62051484
1Km square:-   NY6214
10Km square:-   NY61
references:-   Listed Buildings 2010


photograph
BVH78.jpg (taken 2.9.2011)  
photograph
BVH86.jpg (taken 2.9.2011)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 14 16) 
placename:-  Hall
placename:-  Crosby Ravensworth 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.

evidence:-   old map:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd) 
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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J5NY61NW.jpg
"Hall"
no symbol 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland

evidence:-   old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s
placename:-  Crosby Hall
source data:-   Photograph, Crosby Hall, Crosby Ravensworth, Westmorland, by Herbert Bell, photographer, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1896.
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HB0094.jpg
Vol.1 no.94 in an album, Examples of Early Domestic and Military Architecture in Westmorland, assembled 1910. 
ms at bottom:-  "94. Crosby Hall. Crosby Ravensworth. W."
item:-  Armitt Library : 1958.3165.94
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Crosby Ravensworth Hall
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"CROSBY RAVENSWORTH HALL / / / CROSBY RAVENSWORTH / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 74037 / NY6207414858"

hearsay:-  
The hall was sold by the Lowther Family to the Todd Family. It had a pele tower, which has been demolished.

ghost story:-  
The favourite form of the dobbie at Crosby Hall is a white bull, when it doesn't shift its shape to a bat. The bull licks at the tower windows, or shake the tower so that its bell rang and plates would fall from kitchen shelves. The local gossip said some fearful deed had been done, perhaps the murder of a rightful heir. to the hall ... The owner in the 19th century pulled the tower down, but not before the bull took pity on him and told him about a treasure to be found, and the time of his death.
"Sometimes it lickd the window pane,
In shape of a girt white bull,
Sometimes it shakd the mantle tower,
Sometimes it towld the bell."
"And thus it carried on for years,
To think on't makes yan whidder,
Till't old man cockd his head - an' then
They beaythe went off togidder."

Robertson, Dawn & Koronka, Peter: 1992: Secrets and Legends of Old Westmorland: Pagan Press (Kirkby Stephen, Cumbria) &Cumbria CC (library service)

notes:-  
moated grangre, succeeded by 14th century tower and 16th century manor house

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

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