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Briery Close, Lakes
Briery Close
civil parish:-   Lakes (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   NY39110194
1Km square:-   NY3901
10Km square:-   NY30

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 26 15) 
placename:-  Briery Close
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:-  
There was a regency villa here in the 1830s; bits were added about 1870; a third part was added, design by Francis Albert Whitwell, 1910-12, for Oswald Hedley.
There is a weathervane displaying Bleriot's monoplane, in which he crossed the English Channel, 1909.

Hyde, Matthew & Whittaker, Esme &Corbet, Val (photographer): 2014: Arts and Craft Houses in the Lake District: Lincoln, Francis (London):: ISBN 978 0 7112 3408 6

notes:-  
Garden design by Thomas H Mawson 1912, for O W E Hedley. The house architect was Francis Whitwell.

Waymark, Janet: 2009: Thomas Mawson, Life, Gardens and Landscapes: Lincoln, Francis (London)

hearsay:-  
Once the home of Sir James and Lady Kaye-Shuttleworth. Charlotte Bronte was staying here in 1850, and met Elizabeth Claghorn Gaskell, who later wrote
The Life of Charlotte Bronte, 1857. The meeting is described in Mrs Gaskell's Letters.

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