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Scales Hall, Skelton
Scales Hall
civil parish:-   Skelton (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   NY42594001
1Km square:-   NY4240
10Km square:-   NY44

photograph
CFO76.jpg (taken 7.10.2016)  
evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 39 9) 
placename:-  Scales Hall
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:-   just possibly descriptive text:- Simpson 1746
placename:-  Scales
source data:-   Atlas, three volumes of maps and descriptive text published as 'The Agreeable Historian, or the Compleat English Traveller ...', by Samuel Simpson, 1746.
image SMP4P197, button  goto source
"... Scales, the Seat of the late John Brougham, Esq; one of the Commissioners of the Excise."
evidence:-   old map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd) 
placename:-  Scales Hall
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, 3x2 sheets, The County of Cumberland, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, by Thomas Donald, engraved and published by Joseph Hodskinson, 29 Arundel Street, Strand, London, 1774.
image
D4NY43NW.jpg
"Scales Hall"
block or blocks, labelled in lowercase; a hamlet or just a house 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library
evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Scales Hall
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"SCALES HALL AND BARN ADJOINING / / / SKELTON / EDEN / CUMBRIA / I / 73982 / NY4259140014"
evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"GATEHOUSE AND CURTAIN WALL OF SCALES HALL / / / SKELTON / EDEN / CUMBRIA / I / 73986 / NY4262140015"
notes:-  
 16th century hall, gateway, perhaps a moat

Perriam, D R &Robinson, J: 1998: Medieval Fortified Buildings of Cumbria: CWAAS:: ISBN 1 873124 23 6; plan and illustration
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