button to main menu  Old Cumbria Gazetteer
Grayrigg Hall, Grayrigg
Grayrigg Hall
locality:-   Grayrigg
civil parish:-   Grayrigg (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   SD57959753
1Km square:-   SD5797
10Km square:-   SD59
SummaryText:-   notes about old and present halls.

photograph
BMC82.jpg (taken 12.5.2006)  
evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 34 11) 
placename:-  Grayrigg Hall
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:-   old map:- Saxton 1579
placename:-  Grarigg Hall
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmorlandiae et Cumberlandiae Comitatus ie Westmorland and Cumberland, scale about 5 miles to 1 inch, by Christopher Saxton, London, engraved by Augustinus Ryther, 1576, published 1579-1645.
image
Sax9SD59.jpg
Tower, symbol for a house, hall, tower, etc.  "Grarigg hall"
item:-  private collection : 2
Image © see bottom of page
evidence:-   old map:- Speed 1611 (Wmd) 
placename:-  Grarigge hall
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, The Countie Westmorland and Kendale the Cheif Towne, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Speed, 1610, published by George Humble, Popes Head Alley, London, 1611-12.
image
SP14SD59.jpg
"Grarigge hall"
circle, tower 
item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.14.5
Image © see bottom of page
evidence:-   old map:- Jansson 1646
placename:-  Grariggehall
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Cumbria and Westmoria, ie Cumberland and Westmorland, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Jansson, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1646.
image
JAN3SD59.jpg
"Grariggehall"
Buildings and tower. 
item:-  JandMN : 88
Image © see bottom of page
evidence:-   hearth tax returns:- Hearth Tax 1675
placename:-  Grayrigge hall
source data:-   Records, hearth tax survey returns, Westmorland, 1674/75.
"Grayrigge hall"
in  "Grayrigge"
evidence:-   old map:- Seller 1694 (Wmd) 
placename:-  Garrige Hall
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmorland, scale about 8 miles to 1 inch, by John Seller, 1694.
image  click to enlarge
SEL7.jpg
"Garrige hall"
circle, italic lowercase text; settlement or house 
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2007.38.87
Image © see bottom of page
evidence:-   old map:- Morden 1695 (Wmd) 
placename:-  Graridg Hall
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmorland, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by Robert Morden, published by Abel Swale, the Unicorn, St Paul's Churchyard, Awnsham, and John Churchill, the Black Swan, Paternoster Row, London, 1695.
image
MD10SD59.jpg
"Graridg Hall"
Circle. 
item:-  JandMN : 24
Image © see bottom of page
evidence:-   old map:- Simpson 1746 map (Wmd) 
placename:-  Graridge Hall
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Westmorland, scale about 8 miles to 1 inch, printed by R Walker, Fleet Lane, London, 1746.
image
SMP2SDP.jpg
"Graridge Hall"
Building. 
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2007.38.59
Image © see bottom of page
evidence:-   old map:- Bowen and Kitchin 1760
placename:-  Grarig Hall
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, A New Map of the Counties of Cumberland and Westmoreland Divided into their Respective Wards, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Emanuel Bowen and Thomas Kitchin et al, published by T Bowles, Robert Sayer, and John Bowles, London, 1760.
image
BO18SD59.jpg
"Grarig Hall"
circle, tower 
item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.14.10
Image © see bottom of page
evidence:-   old map:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd) 
placename:-  Grayrigg Hall
source data:-   Map, 4 sheets, The County of Westmoreland, scale 1 inch to 1 mile, surveyed 1768, and engraved and published by Thomas Jefferys, London, 1770.
image
J5SD59NE.jpg
"Grayrigg Hall"
house 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland
evidence:-   old map:- Cary 1789 (edn 1805) 
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Westmoreland, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Cary, London, 1789; edition 1805.
image
CY24SD59.jpg
"Hall"
house symbol; large house 
item:-  JandMN : 129
Image © see bottom of page
evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Grayrigg Hall
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"GRAYRIGG HALL / / / GRAYRIGG / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 75655 / SD5794397519"
evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"BARN APPROXIMATELY 50M TO NORTH-WEST OF GRAYRIGG HALL / / / GRAYRIGG / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 75656 / SD5793097562"
hearsay:-  
 In the 17th century a magistrate, Mr Duckett, lived at an earlier Grayrigg Hall which was further out from the village. He sentenced Mr Howgill, a Quaker, to be imprisonned in the gaol at Appleby. Mr Howgill cursed the magistrate:-
"Your name will rot out of the earth, and your dwelling house become derelict and a habitation of owls and jackdaws."
Mr Duckett's children all died childless; old Grayrigg Hall was taken down, in the 1700s, leaving little more than a roost for the birds.
notes:-  
 hall (which, where?)

Perriam, D R &Robinson, J: 1998: Medieval Fortified Buildings of Cumbria: CWAAS:: ISBN 1 873124 23 6
button to lakes menu  Lakes Guides menu.