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Cark Hall, Cark
Cark Hall
locality:-   Cark
civil parish:-   Lower Holker (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   SD36517674
1Km square:-   SD3676
10Km square:-   SD37


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BZB10.jpg (taken 9.8.2013)  
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BUE70.jpg (taken 4.3.2011)  
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BZB11.jpg  Door hood, coat of arms.
(taken 9.8.2013)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Lan 17 6) 
placename:-  Cark 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.
"Cark Hall"

evidence:-   old text:- Camden 1789 (Gough Additions) 
placename:-  Cark Hall
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 CAM2P143, button  goto source
Page 143:-  "... Christopher Rawlinson, only son of Curwen Rawlinson, of Cark hall, in Cartmell, collaterally related to all the foregoing [Rawlinsons of Graythwaite Old Hall], was born 1677, educated at Queen's college, Oxford, and eminently distinguished for his application to the Saxon and Northern literature, He published a beautiful edition of Alfred's translation of Boetius de Consolatione 1698, and left a large collection of MSS. among which are many relating to Westmorland and Cumberland. He died 1732, age 55, and was buried in a vault in the north transept of St. Alban's abbey church, where is a beautiful monument to his memory."


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BUE69.jpg (taken 4.3.2011)  
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BZB12.jpg  Chimney.
(taken 9.8.2013)  

notes:-  
Built by Thomas Pickering, 16th century; he was married in Cartmel, 1571. It passed by marriage to the Curwen Family of Mysreside Hall, Flookburgh. Later it was owned by the Rawlinson Family. The west wing was added in the 17th century.

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