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Raw Head, New Hutton
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Raw Head
locality:-   Rawhead Farm
civil parish:-   New Hutton (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   SD56369178
1Km square:-   SD5691
10Km square:-   SD59

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 39 6) 
placename:-  Raw Head
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.

notes:-  
Once the home of the Sleddal Family. Stone greyhounds, the family crest, removed from the mansion are now in the village at the church and the school.
Mr Sleddal took offence on a visit to the vicarage, and instead of building almshouses in New Hutton, built them in Kendal.

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