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summer house, Dacre
Thompson's Folly
locality:-   Flusco Pike
locality:-   Flusco
civil parish:-   Dacre (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   summer house
locality type:-   folly
coordinates:-   NY46452857
1Km square:-   NY4628
10Km square:-   NY42
references:-   Listed Buildings 2010


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BZF30.jpg (taken 4.9.2013)  

evidence:-   old text:- Clarke 1787
placename:-  Thompson's Folly
source data:-   Guide book, A Survey of the Lakes of Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire, written and published by James Clarke, Penrith, Cumberland, and in London etc, 1787; published 1787-93.
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Page 46:-  "..."
"We next come to some new inclosures, where a common called Fluskew was divided A.D.1773 among a number of proprietors. ... on the right, an hill called Fluskew-Pike, on the top of which is a small square building called Thompson's Folly, whence is a very extensive and beautiful prospect."

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"SUMMER HOUSE ON TOP OF FLUSCO PIKE / / / DACRE / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 73767 / NY4645428575"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Folly summer house. Late C18 for George Thompson. Red sandstone rubble walls with flush quoins, under granduated greenslate roof with stone hips. Small square single-cell building. Stone-surround doorway; plain reveals on returns; joinery missing from openings. Interior has a small rear fireplace but otherwise without features. Probably used as a shepherd's bothy in the C19. On a high vantage point and a prominent landscape feature. Mentioned in W. Hutchinson, History of Cumberland, 1794, vol. I, p.476. Derelict and unoccupied at the time of survey."

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