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Orrest Head Farm, Windermere
Orrest Head
locality:-   Windermere
civil parish:-   Windermere (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   SD41619859
1Km square:-   SD4198
10Km square:-   SD49


photograph
BXW16.jpg (taken 15.2.2013)  

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Orrest Head Farm
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"ORREST HEAD FARMHOUSE / / KENDAL ROAD / WINDERMERE TOWN / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 351690 / SD4159798604"

notes:-  
The farmer, Josiah Brown, had a large savage bull, so had a farmer in Troutbeck. Josiah made a challenge for a fight between the two bulls. He rode his bull to the battleground, and he won. His prize was the body of the beaten animal, which he gave to the poor of Troutbeck.

Baron 1925

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