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Mathew How, Troutbeck
Mathew How
Matthew How
civil parish:-   Windermere (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
locality type:-   garden
coordinates:-   NY40710247
1Km square:-   NY4002
10Km square:-   NY40
references:-   Listed Buildings 2010


photograph
CDN50.jpg (taken 9.7.2015)  

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Mathew How
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"MATHEW HOW / / / WINDERMERE TOWN / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 486976 / NY4071402470"


photograph
CDN51.jpg  Topiary, box.
(taken 9.7.2015)  
photograph
CDN52.jpg  Topiary, box.
(taken 9.7.2015)  


Longville, Tim &Corbett, Val (photr): 2007: Gardens of the Lake District: Lincoln, Frances (London)

hearsay:-  
This was once the Jolly Dragoon.
There was a gallery on the west side of the building. This is shown on a painting (in the house in 1984).
In restoration work a skeleton was found of a man buried standing up, which is a norse custom.

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