Old Cumbria Gazetteer - Brockhole, Lakes


	Brockhole, Lakes
	Brockhole
	Brockhole Visitor Centre
civil parish:-	Lakes (formerly Westmorland)
county:-	Cumbria
locality type:-	museum
locality type:-	buildings
locality type:-	garden
locality type:-	summer house
coordinates:-	NY38960099 (etc)
1Km square:-	NY3801
10Km square:-	NY30

	BLP79.jpg (taken 15.2.2006) BLP80.jpg (taken 15.2.2006)

evidence:-	old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 32 3) placename:- Brockhole
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.

notes:-	Design by Dan Gibson, 1897-1902, for W H and Edith Gaddum, cotton mfr of Liverpool. It was named for a badger set on the site.
	Gardens by Thomas H Mawson, 1897-1902.
	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

notes:-	Brockhole was built 1897-1900 for William Henry Adolphus Gaddum, silk merchant, Manchester. His wife, Edith, was a cousin of Beatrix Potter. The architect was Dan Gibson; the landscape designer Thomas H Mawson.
	Waymark, Janet: 2009: Thomas Mawson, Life, Gardens and Landscapes: Lincoln, Francis (London) Longville, Tim &Corbett, Val (photr): 2007: Gardens of the Lake District: Lincoln, Frances (London)

	BPF01.jpg (taken 12.5.2008)

	BPE95.jpg Sculpture in the garden. (taken 12.5.2008) BPE96.jpg Sculpture in the garden. (taken 12.5.2008) BPE98.jpg Sculpture in the garden. (taken 12.5.2008) BPE99.jpg Sculpture in the garden. (taken 12.5.2008)

	BPF02.jpg The exhibition. (taken 12.5.2008) BPF03.jpg The exhibition. (taken 12.5.2008) BPF04.jpg The exhibition; geology. (taken 12.5.2008) BPF05.jpg The exhibition; rural crafts. (taken 12.5.2008) BPF06.jpg The exhibition. (taken 12.5.2008) BPF07.jpg The exhibition; jigsaw carpet. (taken 12.5.2008)

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