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Thornthwaite Hall, Bampton
Thornthwaite Hall
civil parish:-   Bampton (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
locality type:-   park (?) 
coordinates:-   NY51281630
1Km square:-   NY5116
10Km square:-   NY51

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 13 12) 
placename:-  Thornthwaite 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:-  Thornthwate
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.
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Building, symbol for a hamlet, which may or may not have a nucleus.  "Thornthwate"
item:-  private collection : 2
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evidence:-   old map:- Speed 1611 (Wmd) 
placename:-  Thornthwaite
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.
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"Thornthwaite"
circle, tower 
item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.14.5
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evidence:-   old map:- Jansson 1646
placename:-  Thornehwate
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.
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"Thornehwate"
Buildings and tower. 
item:-  JandMN : 88
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evidence:-   hearth tax returns:- Hearth Tax 1675
placename:-  Thornthwaite hall
source data:-   Records, hearth tax survey returns, Westmorland, 1674/75.
"Thornthwaite hall"
in  "Bampton Pattricke"

evidence:-   old map:- Morden 1695 (Wmd) 
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.
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"Thornthwate hall"
Circle, tower; just outside a ring of fence palings, trees, with the Haweswater Beck running through. 
item:-  JandMN : 24
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evidence:-   old map:- Badeslade 1742
placename:-  Thornthwait Hall
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, A Map of Westmorland North from London, scale about 10 miles to 1 inch, with descriptive text, by Thomas Badeslade, London, engraved and published by William Henry Toms, Union Court, Holborn, London, 1742.
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"Thornthwait H."
circle, italic lowercase text; village, hamlet or locality 
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2007.38.62
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evidence:-   old map:- Simpson 1746 map (Wmd) 
placename:-  Thorntwate Hall
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Westmorland, scale about 8 miles to 1 inch, printed by R Walker, Fleet Lane, London, 1746.
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"Thorntwate H."
Building; and outline of a park. 
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2007.38.59
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evidence:-   old map:- Bowen and Kitchin 1760
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.
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circle, tower, and outline of fence palings, bushes, with stream through 
item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.14.10
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evidence:-   old map:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd) 
placename:-  Thornthwait 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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"Thornthwait Hall"
circle; house 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland

evidence:-   old map:- Cary 1789 (edn 1805) 
placename:-  Hall Mill
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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"Hall Mill"
block/s, labelled in italic lowercase; house, or hamlet 
item:-  JandMN : 129
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evidence:-   old map:- Otley 1818
placename:-  Thornthwaite Hall
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, The District of the Lakes, Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Jonathan Otley, 1818, engraved by J and G Menzies, Edinburgh, Scotland, published by Jonathan Otley, Keswick, Cumberland, et al, 1833.
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item:-  JandMN : 48.1
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evidence:-   old map:- Garnett 1850s-60s H
placename:-  Thornthwaite Hall
source data:-   Map of the English Lakes, in Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, 1850s-60s.
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"Thornthwaite Hall"
block, building 
item:-  JandMN : 82.1
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evidence:-   probably fiction:- Trollope 1864
placename:-  Vavasor Hall
source data:-   image TROLLOP1, button  goto source
chapter 1 Mr Vavasor and his daughter  "... Squire Vavasor of Vavasor Hall, in Westmorland, was a country gentleman, possessing some thousand a year at the outside, and he therefore never came up to London ..."
chapter 31 Among the Fells  "The whole party went to church on this Christmas morning. ..."
"... There were long skirtings of dark pines around a portion of the Squire's property, and at the back of the house there was a thick wood of firs running up to the top of what was there called the Beacon Hill. Through this there was a wild steep walk which came out upon the moorland, and from thence there was a track across the mountain to Hawes Water and Naddale, and on over many miles to the further beauties of Bowness and Windermere. ..."

evidence:-   old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s
placename:-  Thornthwaite Hall
source data:-   Photograph, Thornthwaite Hall, Bampton, Westmorland, by Herbert Bell, photographer, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1897.
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Vol.1 no.59 in an album, Examples of Early Domestic and Military Architecture in Westmorland, assembled 1910. 
ms at bottom:-  "59. Thornthwaite Hall. Bampton W."
item:-  Armitt Library : 1958.3165.59
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evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Thornthwaite Hall
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"THORNTHWAITE HALL AND ATTACHED BARN / / / BAMPTON / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 74469 / NY5128516298"

notes:-  
tower and hall

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

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