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College, Newtown
locality:-   Newtown
civil parish:-   Lowther (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
locality type:-   school (ex, perhaps) 
coordinates:-   NY52642417
1Km square:-   NY5224
10Km square:-   NY52


photograph
BRT54.jpg (taken 22.10.2009)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 7 8) 
placename:-  College, The
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 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 G823B324, button  goto source
Gentleman's Magazine 1823 part 2 p.324  "LOWTHER, founded in 1638, by Richard Lowther, esq. and his nephew Sir John Lowther, and endowed by this Richard Lowther, esq. with 100l. and by this Sir John Lowther, with 'one piece of ground in the Slacke.' A rent charge of 10l. a year is paid to the Master from the Priory of Lambly in Northumberland, supposed to have been purchased with the above 100l. given by Richard Lowther, esq. The School was built at Lowther in 1640, and in the year 1810 was removed and rebuilt near the village of Hackthorp, by the present William, Earl of Lonsdale."

evidence:-   old text:- Gents Mag
item:-  carpet factory
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.
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Gentleman's Magazine 1825 part 1 p.515  "Compendium of County History. - Westmorland."
"AT LOWTHER College were educated the Earl of Selkirk, and late Duke of Athol. The college was coverted into a manufactory for most beautiful carpets, &c. of strength and lustre little inferior to those of Persia; intended chiefly for the owner's use, but a few were sold from 63l. to 105l. ..."

hearsay:-  
Perhaps the school that was built 1640, and removed to Hackthorpe 1810.

observation:-  
Now the offices of the Lowther Forestry Group.

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