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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 |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 14 16) placename:- Hall placename:- Crosby Ravensworth 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. |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd) |
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| 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. J5NY61NW.jpg "Hall" no symbol item:- National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47 Image © National Library of Scotland |
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| evidence:- | old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s placename:- Crosby Hall |
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| source data:- | Photograph, Crosby Hall, Crosby Ravensworth, Westmorland, by Herbert Bell, photographer,
Ambleside, Westmorland, 1896. click to enlargeHB0094.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 |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:- Crosby Ravensworth Hall |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "CROSBY RAVENSWORTH HALL / / / CROSBY RAVENSWORTH / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 74037 / NY6207414858" |
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| hearsay:- |
The hall was sold by the Lowther Family to the Todd Family. It had a pele tower, which
has been demolished. |
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| 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. |
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| "Sometimes it lickd the window pane, In shape of a girt white bull, Sometimes it shakd the mantle tower, Sometimes it towld the bell." |
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| "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." |
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| Robertson, Dawn & Koronka, Peter: 1992: Secrets and Legends of Old Westmorland: Pagan
Press (Kirkby Stephen, Cumbria) &Cumbria CC (library service) |
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| notes:- |
moated grangre, succeeded by 14th century tower and 16th century manor house |
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| Perriam, D R &Robinson, J: 1998: Medieval Fortified Buildings of Cumbria: CWAAS::
ISBN 1 873124 23 6; illustrations |
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