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Godmond Hall, Strickland Roger
Godmond Hall
Street:-   Potter Fell Road
civil parish:-   Strickland Roger (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   SD49959785
1Km square:-   SD4997
10Km square:-   SD49


photograph
CFR65.jpg (taken 11.11.2016)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 33 11) 
placename:-  Godmond 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:-   possibly old map:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd) 
placename:-  Potter Fell Side
source data:-   Map, 4 sheets, The County of Westmoreland, scale 1 inch to 1 mile, surveyed 1768, and engraved and published by Thomas Jefferys, London, 1770.
image
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"Potter Fell Side"
circle; hamlet or houses 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland

evidence:-   old text:- Camden 1789 (Gough Additions) 
placename:-  Godmond 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 CAM2P153, button  goto source
Page 153:-  "In Strickland Roger another chapelry of Kendal remains at Godmond hall the tower in its original state. The walls are upwards of two yards thick and strongly cemented; the windows small and crossed with strong iron bars: the lowest floor is arched over; and the next above laid with massy boards or planks groined into each other to prevent assaults from above: for the predatory parties did not proceed by way of sap, but by compendious method strove to unroof the building and let themselves down by ropes and ladders."

evidence:-   possibly old map:- Cary 1789 (edn 1805) 
placename:-  Potter Fell
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Westmoreland, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Cary, London, 1789; edition 1805.
image
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"Potter Fell"
block/s, labelled in italic lowercase; house, or hamlet 
item:-  JandMN : 129
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s
placename:-  Godmond Hall
source data:-   Photograph, Godmond Hall, Strickland Roger, Westmorland, by Herbert Bell, photographer, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1897.
image  click to enlarge
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Vol.2 no.154 in an album, Examples of Early Domestic and Military Architecture in Westmorland, assembled 1910. 
ms at bottom:-  "154. Godmond Hall. Kendal. K."
item:-  Armitt Library : 1958.3166.48
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Godmond Hall
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"GODMOND HALL / / POTTER FELL ROAD / STRICKLAND ROGER / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 76434 / SD4995697851"

notes:-  
possible 15th century tower and hall

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

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