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College, Tirril
locality:-   Tirril
civil parish:-   Sockbridge and Tirril (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
locality type:-   school (?ex) 
coordinates:-   NY50422660
1Km square:-   NY5026
10Km square:-   NY52


photograph
BXB04.jpg (taken 10.8.2012)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 7 3) 
placename:-  College
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:-   possibly 
source data:-   photograph
BXO97.jpg

21.10.2012 -  
"... WILLIAM SANDERSON of Sockbridge who departed this life 8th. Feby. 1836. Aged 54. Who in a Codicil to his Will dated 2nd. February 1836, bequeathed to the Vicar and Church Wardens of the Parish of Barton, for the time being, the Sum of One Hundred Pounds, in Trust for the use of the Village School then at Tirril, for the instruction of the Poor Children of the several villages of Sockbridge, Tirril, Thorpe, & Yanwath, the annual interest of which sum of one hundred pounds to be paid to the teacher of such school for its better maintenance &to enable those poor children whose parents are not able to pay for their education to receive religious, moral and useful instruction. ..."

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