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Sella Park House, St Bridget Beckermet
Sella Park House
civil parish:-   St Bridget Beckermet (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
locality type:-   park (once) 
locality type:-   buildings
locality type:-   pele tower
locality type:-   park (once) 
locality type:-   inn (once) 
coordinates:-   NY03390545
1Km square:-   NY0305
10Km square:-   NY00
references:-   Listed Buildings 2010


photograph
BMV87.jpg (taken 13.10.2006)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 78 1) 
placename:-  Sella Park
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 map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd) 
placename:-  Sella Park
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
D4NY00NW.jpg
"Sella Park"
block or blocks, labelled in lowercase; a hamlet or just a house 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library

evidence:-   old text:- Camden 1789 (Gough Additions) 
placename:-  Silla Park
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 CAM2P181, button  goto source
Page 181:-  "..."
"A mile lower on the rill to the sea lies Silla park, a cell and park of this house [Calder Abbey]."

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Stella Park Hotel
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"STELLA PARK HOTEL / / / ST BRIDGET BECKERMET / COPELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 76364 / NY0339305459"

notes:-  
supposed tower included in later house

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

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