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Crofton Hall, Thursby
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Crofton Hall
Crofton Place
locality:-   Crofton
civil parish:-   Thursby (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   NY30325004
1Km square:-   NY3050
10Km square:-   NY35
evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 29 3) 
placename:-  Crofton Hall
item:-  gas works; dovecote; summer house; riding school
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.
"Crofton Hall / Gas Ho. / Riding School / Dovecot / Summer Ho."
evidence:-   perhaps descriptive text:- Simpson 1746
placename:-  Crofton
source data:-   Atlas, three volumes of maps and descriptive text published as 'The Agreeable Historian, or the Compleat English Traveller ...', by Samuel Simpson, 1746.
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"... Crofton, the Seat of John Briscoe, Esq; ..."
evidence:-   old map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd) 
placename:-  Crofton 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.
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"Crofton Hall / Briscoe Esqr."
house and avenue of trees 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library
evidence:-   road book:- Cary 1798 (2nd edn 1802) 
placename:-  Crofton Hall
source data:-   Road book, itineraries, Cary's New Itinerary, by John Cary, 181 Strand, London, 2nd edn 1802.
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page 321-322  "About 3 Miles on r. of Wigton is Crofton Hall, Sir John Briscoe, Bart."
item:-  JandMN : 228.1
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evidence:-   road book:- Cary 1798 (2nd edn 1802) 
placename:-  Crofton Hall
source data:-   Road book, itineraries, Cary's New Itinerary, by John Cary, 181 Strand, London, 2nd edn 1802.
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page 555-556  "Beyond Woodhouses, on l. is Crofton Hall, Sir John Briscoe, Bart."
item:-  JandMN : 228.2
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evidence:-   old map:- Ford 1839 map
placename:-  Crofton Hall
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Map of the Lake District of Cumberland, Westmoreland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by Charles Thurnam, Carlisle, and by R Groombridge, 5 Paternoster Row, London, 3rd edn 1843.
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"Crofton Hall"
Building and park. 
item:-  JandMN : 100.1
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evidence:-   old map:- Garnett 1850s-60s H
placename:-  Crofton Hall
source data:-   Map of the English Lakes, in Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, 1850s-60s.
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"Crofton Hall"
block, building 
item:-  JandMN : 82.1
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evidence:-   old map:- Burrow 1920s
source data:-   Road book, On the Road, Dunlop Pictorial Road Plans, volume V, strip maps with parts in Westmorland, Cumberland etc, irregular scale about 1.5 miles to 1 inch, by E J Burrow and Co, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, 1920s.
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item:-  private collection : 17
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evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"GATE ARCH AND FLANKING WALLS, TO SOUTH-EAST OF CROFTON HALL / / / THURSBY / ALLERDALE / CUMBRIA / II / 71932 / NY3090749603"
evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
item:-  date stone (1826)
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"STABLE BLOCK FOR THE DEMOLISHED CROFTON HALL / / / THURSBY / ALLERDALE / CUMBRIA / II / 71935 / NY3033249982"
evidence:-   perhaps old painting:- 
placename:-  Crofton Place
source data:-   Painting, watercolour, Crofton Place, perhaps Crofton Hall, Thursby, Cumberland, by Robert Carlyle snr, 1791.
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Included in an album The Antiquities of the City of Carlisle. View of Crofton Place from surrounding parkland. two men stand conversing in the foreground. 
inscribed at bottom centre:-  "CROFTON PLACE"
item:-  Tullie House Museum : 1978.108.77.23
Image © Tullie House Museum

photograph
BZP54.jpg  Stables.
(taken 1.11.2013)  
notes:-  
 Home of the Brisco Family; created a baronet 1782.
The house was a grecian style building built 1838, the interior designed by the Adam brothers and italian craftsmen. It was said to be haunted by a Lady in Grey.
It was demolished, being in unsafe condition, 1957. The ghost disppeared as well.
The estate was sold to the Land Settlement Association in 1935. It became a community of unemployed miners from west Cumberland. The miners helped build their own homes, and farmed pigs, poultry, and worked greenhouses. The project was supported by the association until 1970.
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