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Wharton Hall, Wharton
Wharton Hall
locality:-   Wharton
civil parish:-   Wharton (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
locality type:-   park
coordinates:-   NY77090616
1Km square:-   NY7706
10Km square:-   NY70

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BRY50.jpg  Old gatehouse.
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evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 30 2) 
placename:-  Wharton 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:- OS County Series (Wmd 30 7) 
placename:-  Wharton Park
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:- Saxton 1579
placename:-  Wharton Hall
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmorlandiae et Cumberlandiae Comitatus ie Westmorland and Cumberland, scale about 5 miles to 1 inch, by Christopher Saxton, London, engraved by Augustinus Ryther, 1576, published 1579-1645.
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Tower, symbol for a house, hall, tower, etc.  "Wharton hall"
Park with fence palings and a tree, and the hall. 
item:-  private collection : 2
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evidence:-   old map:- Speed 1611 (Wmd) 
placename:-  Wharton Hall
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, The Countie Westmorland and Kendale the Cheif Towne, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Speed, 1610, published by George Humble, Popes Head Alley, London, 1611-12.
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"Wharton Hall"
circle, tower, and tree symbols in a ring of fence palings for the park 
item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.14.5
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evidence:-   old map:- Jansson 1646
placename:-  Wharton Hall
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Cumbria and Westmoria, ie Cumberland and Westmorland, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Jansson, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1646.
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"Wharton Hall"
Buildings and tower in a ring of fence palings with trees. 
item:-  JandMN : 88
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evidence:-   hearth tax returns:- Hearth Tax 1675
placename:-  Lord Wharton house
source data:-   Records, hearth tax survey returns, Westmorland, 1674/75.
"Lord Wharton house"
in  "Wharton Dikes"
evidence:-   old map:- Seller 1694 (Wmd) 
placename:-  Wharton Hall
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmorland, scale about 8 miles to 1 inch, by John Seller, 1694.
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"Wharton Hall"
circle, italic lowercase text; settlement or house 
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2007.38.87
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evidence:-   old map:- Morden 1695 (Wmd) 
placename:-  Whartonhall
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmorland, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by Robert Morden, published by Abel Swale, the Unicorn, St Paul's Churchyard, Awnsham, and John Churchill, the Black Swan, Paternoster Row, London, 1695.
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"Whartonhall"
Circle, in its park - ring of fence palings, trees. 
item:-  JandMN : 24
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evidence:-   old map:- Badeslade 1742
placename:-  Wharton Hall
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, A Map of Westmorland North from London, scale about 10 miles to 1 inch, with descriptive text, by Thomas Badeslade, London, engraved and published by William Henry Toms, Union Court, Holborn, London, 1742.
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"Wharton Hall"
circle, italic lowercase text; village, hamlet or locality 
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2007.38.62
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evidence:-   old map:- Simpson 1746 map (Wmd) 
placename:-  Wharton Hall
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Westmorland, scale about 8 miles to 1 inch, printed by R Walker, Fleet Lane, London, 1746.
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"Wharton Hall"
Building and a park. 
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2007.38.59
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evidence:-   old map:- Bowen and Kitchin 1760
placename:-  Wharton Hall
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, A New Map of the Counties of Cumberland and Westmoreland Divided into their Respective Wards, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Emanuel Bowen and Thomas Kitchin et al, published by T Bowles, Robert Sayer, and John Bowles, London, 1760.
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"Wharton H."
no symbol for hall, outline of fence palings 
item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.14.10
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evidence:-   old map:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd) 
placename:-  Wharton Park
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.
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"WHARTON PARK / Hall"
outline with fence palings; park, trees and undergrowth, house 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland
evidence:-   old text:- Pennant 1773
source data:-   Book, A Tour from Downing to Alston Moor, 1773, by Thomas Pennant, published by Edward Harding, 98 Pall Mall, London, 1801.
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Pennant's Tour 1773, page 129  "One morning I took a ride to Wharton-hall, about two miles to the south of Kirkby, seated on the Eden, and, till the ruin of the family, in a noble park, at present occupied by farmers. This had been from very distant time the residence of the well-known name of the Whartons. The antiquity of their stock is far higher than the herald's record. A considerable family flourished here as early as the reign of Edward I. Yet the first which is mentioned in the College is Thomas de Wharton, in the time of Henry VI. who"
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Pennant's Tour 1773, page 130  "held the manor from Thomas de Clifford. The house is almost a ruin, and had been very large. In the kitchen are two vast fire-places, and in the hall one twelve feet wide, melancholy testimonies of the former hospitality of the place. I could not avoid enquiring after the celebrated Duke"
""Wharton, the scorn and wonder of our days,
"Whose ruling passion was the lust of praise:
"Born with whate'er could win it from the wise,
"Women and fools must like him or he dies:
"Tho' wond'ring Senates hung on all he spoke,
"The Club must hail him master of the joke.
"Shall parts so various aim at nothing new?
"He'll shine a Tully, and a Wilmot too.
"Then turns repentant, and his God adores,
"With the same spirit that he drinks and whores.
"Enough if all around him but admire,
"And now the Punk applaud, and now the Friar.
"Thus with each gift of nature and of art,
"And wanting nothing but an honest heart,
"Grown all to all, from no one vice exempt,
"And most contemptible to shun contempt:
"His passion still to covet gen'ral praise,
"His life to forfeit in a thousand ways:
"A constant bounty which no friend has made;
"An angel-tongue, which no man can persuade;"
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Pennant's Tour 1773, page 131  ""A fool with more of wit than half mankind,
"Too rash for thought, for action too refin'd:
"A tyrant to the wife his heart approves;
"A rebel to the very King he loves:
"He dies, sad out-cast of each Church and State,
"And harder still flagitious yet not great.
"Ask you why Wharton broke thro' every rule?
"'Twas all for fear the knaves should call him fool.""
"I discovered that people now living well remembered this British Clodio, and bear witness to the justice of the description of the profligate part of his character; of his affecting to hunt upon Sundays, and shewing in all his actions an equal contempt of the laws of GOD and Man."
evidence:-   old text:- Camden 1789
placename:-  Wharton 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.
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Page 147:-  "... Wharton hall, the seat of the barons Wharton, of whom the first was Thomas, advanced to that title by Henry VIII. and succeeded by his son of the same name, and he by the present lord Philip, a most worthy nobleman. ..."
evidence:-   old text:- Camden 1789 (Gough Additions) 
placename:-  Wharton House
item:-  Battle of Solway Moss
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.
Page 156:-  "..."
"Wharton house has been the seat of its family from the reign of Edward I.; and they have been lords of Croglin hall in Cumberland, and patrons of that rectory above 400 years. Thomas was created a baron by Henry VIII. for his surprising conduct and success in the entire defeat of the Scots at Solom moss; which victory in all its circumstances was perhaps one of the most considerable the English ever gained over the forces of the neighbouring kingdom. Edward VI. in recompence of that eminent service granted this lord an augmentation of his paternal coat, a border engrailed O. charged with legs of lions in saltire G. armed Az.. He died 1568, and was buried in the church of Kirkby Stephen, where is a monument to him and his two wives. He was succeeded by his son Thomas, who died 1572, had for successor his son Philip, who dying 1625, and was succeeded by his grandson Philip, son of sir Thomas, who died in his father's life-time. Philip died and was succeeded by his son Thomas, who was advanced to the honour of viscount Winchedon and earl of Wharton, and afterwards marquis of Wharton, and died 1715. His only son and successor was created duke of Wharton, and died 1731."
"The village of Wharton was demolished long ago to make room for the park, and the hall is now desolate and in ruins."
evidence:-   old map:- Cary 1789 (edn 1805) 
placename:-  Wharton Park
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Westmoreland, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Cary, London, 1789; edition 1805.
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"Hall / Wharton Park"
house symbol, outline with fence palings; large house inside its park 
item:-  JandMN : 129
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evidence:-   road book:- Cary 1798 (2nd edn 1802) 
placename:-  Whareton Hall
source data:-   Road book, itineraries, Cary's New Itinerary, by John Cary, 181 Strand, London, 2nd edn 1802.
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page 315-316  "Near Kirkby Stephen, ... on r. Whareton Hall, Earl of Lonsdale."
item:-  JandMN : 228.1
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evidence:-   old map:- Cooke 1802
placename:-  Wharton Park
source data:-   Map, Westmoreland ie Westmorland, scale about 12 miles to 1 inch, by George Cooke, 1802, published by Sherwood, Jones and Co, Paternoster Road, London, 1824.
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"Wharton Park"
outline of fence palings; park 
item:-  Hampshire Museums : FA2000.62.4
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evidence:-   old map:- Wallis 1810 (Wmd) 
placename:-  Wharton Park
source data:-   Road map, Westmoreland, scale about 19 miles to 1 inch, by James Wallis, 77 Berwick Street, Soho, 1810, published by W Lewis, Finch Lane, London, 1835?
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"Wharton Park"
outline with fence palings; park 
item:-  JandMN : 63
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evidence:-   old map:- Hall 1820 (Wmd) 
placename:-  Wharton Park
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmoreland ie Westmorland, scale about 14.5 miles to 1 inch, by Sidney Hall, London, 1820, published by Samuel Leigh, 18 Strand, London, 1820-31.
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"Wharton Park"
outline of fence palings; park 
item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.14.58
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evidence:-   old map:- Ford 1839 map
placename:-  Wharton Park
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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"Wharton Park / Hall"
Building and park. 
item:-  JandMN : 100.1
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evidence:-   old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s
item:-  yew
source data:-   Photograph, black and white, Wharton Hall, Wharton, Westmorland, by Herbert Bell, photographer, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s.
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item:-  Armitt Library : ALPS453
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evidence:-   old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s
placename:-  Wharton Hall
source data:-   Photograph, Wharton Hall, The Old Tower and Gallery, Wharton, Westmorland, by Herbert Bell, photographer, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1894.
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Vol.1 no.35 in an album, Examples of Early Domestic and Military Architecture in Westmorland, assembled 1910. 
ms at bottom:-  "35. Wharton Hall, The Old Tower and Gallery. Kirkby Stephen. E."
item:-  Armitt Library : 1958.3165.35
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evidence:-   old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s
placename:-  Wharton Hall
source data:-   Photograph, Wharton Hall, The Gatehouse, Wharton, Westmorland, by Herbert Bell, photographer, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1897.
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Vol.1 no.36 in an album, Examples of Early Domestic and Military Architecture in Westmorland, assembled 1910. 
ms at bottom:-  "36. Wharton Hall, The Gatehouse. Kirkby Stephen. E."
item:-  Armitt Library : 1958.3165.36
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evidence:-   old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s
placename:-  Wharton Hall
item:-  gateway; gate
source data:-   Photograph, Wharton Hall, Gateway, Wharton, Westmorland, by Herbert Bell, photographer, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1897.
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Vol.1 no.37 in an album, Examples of Early Domestic and Military Architecture in Westmorland, assembled 1910. 
ms at bottom:-  "37. Wharton Hall, Gateway. Kirkby Stephen. E."
item:-  Armitt Library : 1958.3165.37
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evidence:-   old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s
placename:-  Wharton Hall
source data:-   Photograph, Wharton Hall, The Gatehouse from the Courtyard, Wharton, Westmorland, by Herbert Bell, photographer, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1897.
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Vol.1 no.38 in an album, Examples of Early Domestic and Military Architecture in Westmorland, assembled 1910. 
ms at bottom:-  "38. Wharton Hall, The Gatehouse from the Courtyard. Kirkby Stephen. E."
item:-  Armitt Library : 1958.3165.38
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evidence:-   old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s
placename:-  Wharton Hall
source data:-   Photograph, Wharton Hall, The Tower, Wharton, Westmorland, by Herbert Bell, photographer, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1894.
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Vol.1 no.39 in an album, Examples of Early Domestic and Military Architecture in Westmorland, assembled 1910. 
ms at bottom:-  "39. Wharton Hall, The Tower. Kirkby Stephen. E."
item:-  Armitt Library : 1958.3165.39
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evidence:-   old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s
placename:-  Wharton Hall
source data:-   Photograph, Wharton Hall, Ruins of the Great Hall, Wharton, Westmorland, by Herbert Bell, photographer, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1894.
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Vol.1 no.40 in an album, Examples of Early Domestic and Military Architecture in Westmorland, assembled 1910. 
ms at bottom:-  "40. Wharton Hall, Ruins of the Great Hall. Kirkby Stephen. E."
item:-  Armitt Library : 1958.3165.40
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evidence:-   old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s
placename:-  Wharton Hall
item:-  steps
source data:-   Photograph, Wharton Hall, The Kitchen, Wharton, Westmorland, by Herbert Bell, photographer, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1897.
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Vol.1 no.41 in an album, Examples of Early Domestic and Military Architecture in Westmorland, assembled 1910. 
ms at bottom:-  "41. Wharton Hall, The Kitchen. Kirkby Stephen. E."
item:-  Armitt Library : 1958.3165.41
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evidence:-   old print:- Taylor 1892
placename:-  Wharton Hall
source data:-   Print, halftone photograph, Wharton Hall, Wharton, Westmorland, published for the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, by Titus Wilson, Kendal, Westmorland, and by Charles Thurnam and Sons, Carlisle, Cumberland, 1892.
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Tipped in opposite p.165 of The Old Manorial Halls of Cumberland and Westmorland, by Michael Waistell Taylor. 
item:-  Armitt Library : A785.26
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evidence:-   old print:- Taylor 1892
placename:-  Wharton Hall
source data:-   Print, plan of Wharton Hall, Wharton, Westmorland, published for the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, by Titus Wilson, Kendal, Westmorland, and by Charles Thurnam and Sons, Carlisle, Cumberland, 1892.
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Tipped in opposite p.168 of The Old Manorial Halls of Cumberland and Westmorland, by Michael Waistell Taylor. 
item:-  Armitt Library : A785.27
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evidence:-   site plan:- Curwen 1913
placename:-  Wharton Hall
source data:-   Site plan, lithograph, Wharton Hall, Wharton, Westmorland, scale about 1 to 520, published for the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society by Titus Wilson, Kendal, Westmorland, 1913.
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On p.403 of The Castles and Fortified Towers of Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire North of the Sands, by John F Curwen. 
printed at upperleft:-  "Wharton Hall / Westmoreland"
printed at lower right:-  "John F. Curwen [29 ]"
item:-  Armitt Library : A782.85
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evidence:-   old print:- Curwen 1913
placename:-  Wharton Hall
source data:-   Print, uncoloured lithograph, Wharton Hall, Wharton, Westmorland, published for the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society by Titus Wilson, Kendal, Westmorland, 1913.
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On p.402 of The Castles and Fortified Towers of Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire North of the Sands, by John F Curwen. 
printed at lower right:-  "WHARTON HALL / WESTMORELAND"
item:-  Armitt Library : A782.84
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evidence:-   site plan:- Historical Monuments 1936
placename:-  Wharton Hall
source data:-   Site plan, uncoloured lithograph, Wharton Hall, Wharton, Westmorland, scale about 1 to 410, published by Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, London, 1936.
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On p.241 of the Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Westmorland. 
printed, top  "WHARTON HALL ..."
RCHME no. Wmd, Wharton 2 
item:-  Armitt Library : A745.143
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evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Wharton Hall
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"WHARTON HALL / / / WHARTON / EDEN / CUMBRIA / I / 73046 / NY7709306169"
evidence:-   old print:- Braithwaite 1922
placename:-  Wharton Hall
source data:-   Print, halftone photograph, Courtyard, Wharton Hall, Wharton, Westmorland, published by J W Braithwaite and Sons, Kirkby Stephen, Westmorland, 1922.
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Tipped in opposite p.32 of a guide book, Kirkby Stephen, 4th edn 1922. 
printed at bottom:-  "THE COURTYARD, WHARTON HALL, KIRKBY STEPHEN."
item:-  private collection : 220.7
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evidence:-   old print:- Pennant 1773 (edn 1801) 
placename:-  Wharton Hall
source data:-   Print, engraving, Wharton Hall, Wharton, Westmorland, drawn by Moses Griffith, engraved by S Sparrow, published by Edward Harding, 98 Pall Mall, London, 1801.
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Tipped in opposite p.129 of A Tour from Downing to Alston Moor, 1773, by Thomas Pennant. 
printed at bottom left, right, centre:-  "Moses Griffith. Del. / S. Sparrow. Sc. / WHARTON HALL / Pub June 1 1801 by Edw Harding 98 Pall Mall."
item:-  Armitt Library : A1057.15
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BRY51.jpg  Gateway.
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BRY52.jpg  Coat of arms on old gatehouse.
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hearsay:-  
 Built by Hugh de Querton, 15th century. It is now a private farmhouse, fortified, with a gatehouse and courtyard.
A later owner, Thomas Wharton, made a deer park, 1560, enclosing land from here to Ravenstonedale. Tenant farmers were turned out, the old village of Wharton abandonded, a nine foot high wall built to keep deer in, and people out.
hearsay:-  
 Philip, Duke of Wharton, the 6th lord? died in 1731 at the age of 32, ruined, a spendthrift, rebel, outlaw; described by Pope:-
"Wharton the scorn and wonder of our days,
Whose ruling passion was the lust of praise,
Born with whate'er could win it from the wise,
Women or fools musts like him, or he dies."

Robertson, Dawn & Koronka, Peter: 1992: Secrets and Legends of Old Westmorland: Pagan Press (Kirkby Stephen, Cumbria) &Cumbria CC (library service)
notes:-  
 15th century tower, hall, etc

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