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Smardale Hall, Waitby
Smardale Hall
locality:-   Smardale
civil parish:-   Waitby (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   NY73920809
1Km square:-   NY7308
10Km square:-   NY70


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BPA81.jpg (taken 18.4.2008)  
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BPA80.jpg (taken 18.4.2008)  

evidence:-   old map:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd) 
placename:-  Smardale 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.
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"Smardale Hall"
house 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland

evidence:-   old map:- Cary 1789 (edn 1805) 
placename:-  Smardale Hall
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Westmoreland, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Cary, London, 1789; edition 1805.
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CY24NY70.jpg
"Smardale Hall"
house symbol; large house 
item:-  JandMN : 129
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evidence:-   old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s
placename:-  Smardale Hall
source data:-   Photograph, Smardale Hall, Waitby, Westmorland, by Herbert Bell, photographer, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1894.
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Vol.1 no.33 in an album, Examples of Early Domestic and Military Architecture in Westmorland, assembled 1910. 
ms at bottom:-  "33. Smardale Hall. Kirkby Stephen. E."
item:-  Armitt Library : 1958.3165.33
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evidence:-   old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s
placename:-  Smardale Hall
source data:-   Photograph, Smardale Hall, Waitby, Westmorland, by Herbert Bell, photographer, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1894.
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Vol.1 no.34 in an album, Examples of Early Domestic and Military Architecture in Westmorland, assembled 1910. 
ms at bottom:-  "34. Smardale Hall. Kirkby Stephen. E."
item:-  Armitt Library : 1958.3165.34
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evidence:-   site plan:- Historical Monuments 1936
placename:-  Smardale Hall
source data:-   Site plan, uncoloured lithograph, Smardale Hall Waitby, Westmorland, scale about 1 to 290? published by Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, London, 1936.
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On p.233 of the Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Westmorland. 
printed, top  "SMARDALE HALL WAITBY"
RCHME no. Wmd, Waitby 1 
item:-  Armitt Library : A745.135
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evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Smardale Hall
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"SMARDALE HALL AND ADJOINING BUILDINGS / / / WAITBY / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II[star] / 73043 / NY7392008096"

notes:-  
courtyard house; 14th century tower, demolished; 16th century wing

Perriam, D R &Robinson, J: 1998: Medieval Fortified Buildings of Cumbria: CWAAS:: ISBN 1 873124 23 6; plan and illustration

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