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Wythop Hall, Wythop
Wythop Hall
locality:-   Wythop
civil parish:-   Wythop (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
locality type:-   park
locality type:-   castle (perhaps) 
coordinates:-   NY20312844
1Km square:-   NY2028
10Km square:-   NY22

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 55 11) 
placename:-  Wythop 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:-   old map:- Saxton 1579
placename:-  Widehope
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmorlandiae et Cumberlandiae Comitatus ie Westmorland and Cumberland, scale about 5 miles to 1 inch, by Christopher Saxton, London, engraved by Augustinus Ryther, 1576, published 1579-1645.
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Tower, symbol for a house, hall, tower, etc; in a ring of fence palings.  "Widehope"
item:-  private collection : 2
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evidence:-   old map:- Speed 1611 (Cmd) 
placename:-  Widehope
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Cumberland and the Ancient Citie Carlile Described, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by John Speed, 1610, published by J Sudbury and George Humble, Popes Head Alley, London, 1611-12.
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"Widehope"
circle, tower, in a ring of fence palings 
item:-  private collection : 16
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evidence:-   old map:- Jansson 1646
placename:-  Widehope
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Cumbria and Westmoria, ie Cumberland and Westmorland, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Jansson, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1646.
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"Widehope"
Buildings and tower in a ring of fence palings with trees. 
item:-  JandMN : 88
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evidence:-   old map:- Morden 1695 (Cmd) 
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Cumberland, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Robert Morden, 1695, published by Abel Swale, the Unicorn, St Paul's Churchyard, Awnsham, and John Churchill, the Black Swan, Paternoster Row, London, 1695-1715.
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Marked within a ring of fence palings, trees. 
item:-  JandMN : 90
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evidence:-   old map:- Bowen and Kitchin 1760
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, A New Map of the Counties of Cumberland and Westmoreland Divided into their Respective Wards, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Emanuel Bowen and Thomas Kitchin et al, published by T Bowles, Robert Sayer, and John Bowles, London, 1760.
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outline of fence palings, trees 
item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.14.10
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evidence:-   old map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd) 
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.
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"Hall"
house 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library

evidence:-   old text:- Gents Mag
item:-  licence to crenellate
source data:-   Magazine, The Gentleman's Magazine or Monthly Intelligencer or Historical Chronicle, published by Edward Cave under the pseudonym Sylvanus Urban, and by other publishers, London, monthly from 1731 to 1922.
image G856B323, button  goto source
Gentleman's Magazine 1856 part 2 pp.323-330  "..."
"LICENCES TO CRENELLATE, FROM THE PATENT ROLLS IN THE TOWER OF LONDON."
"[Edward II continued]"
"..."
"12. Hugo de Louthre mansum suum de Wythehope in Derwente-felles ... Cumbr."
"..."

evidence:-   text:- Curwen 1913
placename:-  Wythope
item:-  licence to crenellate
source data:-   Book, The Castles and Fortified Towers of Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire North of the Sands, by John F Curwen, published for the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society by Titus Wilson, Kendal, Westmorland, 1913.
Licence to crenellate granted by Edward II; 12 Juy 1318:-  "Hugo de Louthre ... mansum suum ... de Wythope in ... Derwentfelles, Cumberland."

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Wythop Hall
item:-  date stone (1678)
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"WYTHOP HALL AND ADJOINING FORMER STABLES / / / WYTHOP / ALLERDALE / CUMBRIA / II / 72212 / NY2029128404"

hearsay:-  
Perhaps on the site of a house which Hugh de Lowther had a licence to crenellate 1318. The rebuilding of 1678 includes none of this.

notes:-  
possible tower, demolished

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

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