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Weary Hall, Boltons
Weary Hall
civil parish:-   Boltons (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
locality type:-   moat
coordinates:-   NY21754179
1Km square:-   NY2141
10Km square:-   NY24

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 36 8) 
placename:-  Weary 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:- Donald 1774 (Cmd) 
placename:-  Weary Hall
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, 3x2 sheets, The County of Cumberland, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, by Thomas Donald, engraved and published by Joseph Hodskinson, 29 Arundel Street, Strand, London, 1774.
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"Weary Hall"
house 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library

evidence:-   old text:- Gents Mag
source data:-   Magazine, The Gentleman's Magazine or Monthly Intelligencer or Historical Chronicle, published by Edward Cave under the pseudonym Sylvanus Urban, and by other publishers, London, monthly from 1731 to 1922.
image G816B601, button  goto source
Gentleman's Magazine 1816 part 2 p.601 
Biographical note from the Compendium of County History:-  "Porter, George, civilian, Weary Hall (died about 1635)."

evidence:-   old map:- Ford 1839 map
placename:-  Weary Hall
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Map of the Lake District of Cumberland, Westmoreland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by Charles Thurnam, Carlisle, and by R Groombridge, 5 Paternoster Row, London, 3rd edn 1843.
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"Weary Hall"
item:-  JandMN : 100.1
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   old print:- 
placename:-  Weary Hall
source data:-   Print, uncoloured lithograph, Weary Hall, from the East, Boltons, Cumberland, by C A Parker, published by Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, Kendal, Westmorland, 1914.
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With an article about the Porter Family by C A Parker.. 
printed at bottom:-  "WEARY HALL, FROM THE EAST"
item:-  private collection : 234
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evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Weary Hall
item:-  date stone (1576)
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"WEARY HALL / / / BOLTONS / ALLERDALE / CUMBRIA / II[star] / 72336 / NY2178141836"

notes:-  
There is a supposed moat site to the west of the16th century hall, about NY21674186 etc.

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

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