button to main menu  Old Cumbria Gazetteer
Castle Folds, Asby
Castle Folds
locality:-   Great Asby Scar
civil parish:-   Asby (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   british settlement
coordinates:-   NY65000934
1Km square:-   NY6509
10Km square:-   NY60


photograph
CCM61.jpg (taken 17.2.2015)  
photograph
Click to enlarge
CCM62.jpg (taken 17.2.2015)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 22 9) 
placename:-  Castle Folds
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:-   old text:- Camden 1789 (Gough Additions) 
placename:-  Castle Folds
source data:-   Book, Britannia, or A Chorographical Description of the Flourishing Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, by William Camden, 1586, translated from the 1607 Latin edition by Richard Gough, published London, 1789.
image CAM2P156, button  goto source
Page 156:-  "... Behind Orton Scarr, ... on a large tract of naked rocks in a solitary place, is a place called Castle folds, strongly walled about, and containing about one acre and a half, to shelter cattle in case of inroads, and at the highest corner has been a fort for the keepers. ..."

evidence:-   site plan:- Historical Monuments 1936
placename:-  Castle Folds
source data:-   Site plan, uncoloured lithograph, Castle Folds in Asby parish, Asby, Westmorland, scale about 1 to 1300, published by Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, London, 1936.
image  click to enlarge
HMW017.jpg
On p.19 of the Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Westmorland. 
printed, top  "CASTLE FOLDS / In Asby parish"
RCHME no. Wmd, Asby 22 
item:-  Armitt Library : A745.17
Image © see bottom of page

button to lakes menu  Lakes Guides menu.