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Skiddaw House, Underskiddaw
Skiddaw House
locality:-   Skiddaw Forest
civil parish:-   Underskiddaw (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   NY28712910
1Km square:-   NY2829
10Km square:-   NY22


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BVE72.jpg (taken 8.8.2011)  
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BVE73.jpg (taken 8.8.2011)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 56 7) 
placename:-  Skiddaw House
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 text:- Otley 1823 (5th edn 1834) 
item:-  grouse
source data:-   Guide book, A Concise Description of the English Lakes, the mountains in their vicinity, and the roads by which they may be visited, with remarks on the mineralogy and geology of the district, by Jonathan Otley, published by the author, Keswick, Cumberland now Cumbria, by J Richardson, London, and by Arthur Foster, Kirkby Lonsdale, Cumbria, 1823; published 1823-49, latterly as the Descriptive Guide to the English Lakes.
image OT01P054, button  goto source
Page 54:-  "... We are now upn the verge of a tract bearing the name of Skiddaw Forest, although without a tree. Here the river Caldew takes its rise; and a keeper's lodge has been built by the Earl of Egremont for the protection of the grouse with which the heath is well stocked. ..."

references:-  
There is historical information about the house at:-

www.skiddawhouse.co.uk

hearsay:-  
Pearson Dalton, shepherd, lived here with his dogs, 1922 to 1975. He walked to stay with his sister at Fellside near Caldbeck at weekends.

hearsay:-  
This is the scene of a murder by Uhland in 1854, in one of the Rogue Herries stories by Hugh Walpole.

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