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| summer house, Dacre | ||
| Thompson's Folly | ||
| locality:- | Flusco Pike | |
| locality:- | Flusco | |
| civil parish:- | Dacre (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | summer house | |
| locality type:- | folly | |
| coordinates:- | NY46452857 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY4628 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY42 | |
| references:- | Listed Buildings 2010 |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Clarke 1787 placename:- Thompson's Folly |
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| source data:- | Guide book, A Survey of the Lakes of Cumberland, Westmorland,
and Lancashire, written and published by James Clarke, Penrith,
Cumberland, and in London etc, 1787; published 1787-93. goto sourcePage 46:- "..." "We next come to some new inclosures, where a common called Fluskew was divided A.D.1773 among a number of proprietors. ... on the right, an hill called Fluskew-Pike, on the top of which is a small square building called Thompson's Folly, whence is a very extensive and beautiful prospect." |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "SUMMER HOUSE ON TOP OF FLUSCO PIKE / / / DACRE / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 73767 / NY4645428575" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "Folly summer house. Late C18 for George Thompson. Red sandstone rubble walls with flush quoins, under granduated greenslate roof with stone hips. Small square single-cell building. Stone-surround doorway; plain reveals on returns; joinery missing from openings. Interior has a small rear fireplace but otherwise without features. Probably used as a shepherd's bothy in the C19. On a high vantage point and a prominent landscape feature. Mentioned in W. Hutchinson, History of Cumberland, 1794, vol. I, p.476. Derelict and unoccupied at the time of survey." |
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