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Lowick Hall, Lowick
Lowick Hall
locality:-   Lowick
civil parish:-   Lowick (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   SD28588598
1Km square:-   SD2885
10Km square:-   SD28


photograph
BND37.jpg (taken 2.2.2007)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Lan 7 15) 
placename:-  Lowick 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:- West 1784 map
placename:-  Lowick Hall
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, A Map of the Lakes in Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, engraved by Paas, 53 Holborn, London, about 1784.
image
Ws02SD28.jpg
item:-  Armitt Library : A1221.1
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Lowick Hall
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"LOWICK HALL / / / LOWICK / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II[star] / 75874 / SD2858685956"

hearsay:-  
Arthur Ransome lived here 1948-50, and made improvements to the norman manorial hall as Lord of the Manor.

notes:-  
site of a hall

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

personal
person:-   author
 : Ransome, Arthur
place:-   home
date:-   1948
 to 1950

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