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cock pit, Scales
locality:-   Scales
civil parish:-   Aldingham (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   cock pit
locality type:-   folly
coordinates:-   SD27107261
1Km square:-   SD2772
10Km square:-   SD27
references:-   Listed Buildings 2010


photograph
CCI90.jpg (taken 5.2.2015)  courtesy of the farmer
photograph
CCI91.jpg (taken 5.2.2015)  courtesy of the farmer

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"COCKPIT IN FIELD TO NORTH OF VILLAGE / / / ALDINGHAM / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 434278 / SD2710872610"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"One of 2 cockpits built in the mid C19 for the Huddleston family; part of a group of buildings erected as follies. Said to have been used for (illegal) cock fights. Drystone construction with battered walls and stone vault. Circular in plan c10 ft high. Low entrance, with semicircular head, faces north and overlooks another cockpit (listed separately)."

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