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| Briery Close, Lakes | ||
| Briery Close | ||
| civil parish:- | Lakes (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | buildings | |
| coordinates:- | NY39110194 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY3901 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY30 | |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 26 15) placename:- Briery Close |
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| 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. |
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| notes:- |
There was a regency villa here in the 1830s; bits were added about 1870; a third part
was added, design by Francis Albert Whitwell, 1910-12, for Oswald Hedley. |
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| There is a weathervane displaying Bleriot's monoplane, in which he crossed the English
Channel, 1909. |
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| Hyde, Matthew & Whittaker, Esme &Corbet, Val (photographer): 2014: Arts and Craft
Houses in the Lake District: Lincoln, Francis (London):: ISBN 978 0 7112 3408 6 |
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| notes:- |
Garden design by Thomas H Mawson 1912, for O W E Hedley. The house architect was Francis
Whitwell. |
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| Waymark, Janet: 2009: Thomas Mawson, Life, Gardens and Landscapes: Lincoln, Francis
(London) |
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| hearsay:- |
Once the home of Sir James and Lady Kaye-Shuttleworth. Charlotte Bronte was staying
here in 1850, and met Elizabeth Claghorn Gaskell, who later wrote |
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| The Life of Charlotte Bronte, 1857. The meeting is described in Mrs Gaskell's Letters. |
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