Old Cumbria Gazetteer

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	placename:-	Greystoke Castle
	other name:-	Greystoke Park
	locality:-	Greystoke
	parish	Greystoke parish, once in Cumberland
	county:-	Cumbria
		castle; park; haunted house; pele tower
	coordinates:-	NY43543089
	10Km square:-	NY43
	1Km square	NY4330
		Greystoke Castle -- Greystoke -- Greystoke -- Cumbria / -- 4.2.2006
	old map:-	OS County Series (Cmd 58 1)
		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.
	placename:-	Greystoke Castle
		castle
	date:-	1890=1899
	period:-	19th century, late; 1890s
	old map:-	Garnett 1850s-60s H
		Map of the English Lakes, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, 1850s-60s.
		Greystoke Park
		area
	placename:-	Greystoke Park
	date:-	1850=1869
	period:-	19th century, late; 1850s; 1860s
	old map:-	Ford 1839 map
		Map of the Lake District, published in A Description of Scenery in the Lake District, by William Ford, published by Charles Thurnham, London, 1839.
		Greystoke Park
		Castle
		In Greystoke Park.
	placename:-	Greystoke Park
	county:-	Cumberland
	date:-	1839
	period:-	19th century, early; 1830s
	old map:-	Ford 1839 map
		Map of the Lake District, published in A Description of Scenery in the Lake District, by William Ford, published by Charles Thurnham, London, 1839.
		Greystoke Park
		Castle
		In Greystoke Park.
	placename:-	Greystoke Park
	county:-	Cumberland
	date:-	1839
	period:-	19th century, early; 1830s
	descriptive text:-	Ford 1839 (3rd edn 1843)
		Description of Scenery in the Lake District, by William Ford, published by Charles Thurnham, London, et al, 1839; published 1839-52.
		Page 94:-
		... The little deviation on the left, avoiding the barren waste of Hutton Moor for the purpose of seeing Greystoke Castle and church, will amply repay him [the stranger]: it is the residence of H. Howard, Esq. to whom it was bequeathed by the late Duke of Norfolk. ...
		Page 174:-
		...
		[at] Penruddock.- About three miles to the left, and visible from the high-road, is Greystoke Castle, the seat of Henry Howard, Esq., a fine and ancient structure, containing some splendid pictures, and many objects of curiosity.
	placename:-	Greystoke Castle
	person:-	: Howard, Henry
	person:-	: Norfolk, Duke of
	date:-	1839
	period:-	19th century, early; 1830s
	source:-	Otley 1818
		New Map of the District of the Lakes, in Westmorland, Cumberland, and Lancashire, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Jonathan Otley, engraved by J and G Menzies, Edinburgh, Lothian, Scotland, published by J Otley, Keswick, Cumberland now Cumbria, 1818; pblished 1818 to 1850s.
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		The great house can be seen in the corner of the park, near the village.
		park; castle
	descriptive text:-	Baker 1802
		Perspective road map with sections in Lancashire, Westmorland, and Cumberland through Kendal and Penrith ending at Carlisle, by J Baker, London 1802.
		pp.25-26:-
		... the august mansion of Graystock, the Duke of Norfolk's. ... observable from the woods and smaller plantations of furs and other evergreens, tastefully arranged on the summits of the hills near them. ...
	placename:-	Graystock
	person:-	: Norfolk, Duke of
	date:-	1802
	period:-	19th century, early; 1800s
	old text:-	Camden 1789
		Britannia, or A Chorographical Description of the Flourishing Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, by William Camden, 1586, translated from the 1607 Latin edition by Richard Gough, published London, 1789.
		Page 174:-
		...
		... On the Peterill, ... stands Greistocke, formerly a castle of the sometime illustrious family, which derive their descent from one Ranulph Fitz Walter, of whose descendants William de Graystock married Mary daughter and coheir of Roger de Merley, lord of Morpath, by whom she had a son John, who, having no issue, obtained leave of Edward I. to convey his estate to his aunt's son Ranulph de Granthorpe, son of William, whose posterity, after having been long very considerable, became extinct about the reign of Henry VII. and their estate passed by marriage to the barons Dacre: but the two heiresses general of the last baron Dacre were married to the sons of Thomas Howard, late duke of Norfolk.
	placename:-	Greistocke Castle
	person:-	: FitzWalter Family
	person:-	Granthorpe Family
	person:-	: Dacre Family
	person:-	: Howard Family
	date:-	1789
	period:-	18th century, late; 1780s
	old map:-	West 1784 map
		A Map of the Lakes in Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire, now Cumbria, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, engraved by Paas, 53 Holborn, London, included in the Guide to the Lakes by Thomas West, published by William Pennington, Kendal, Westmorland, and in London, from the 3rd edition 1784, to 1821.
		Shown by an oval of fence palings, with the castle inside.
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	placename:-	Graystock Castle
	other name:-	Graystock Park
		park
	county:-	Cumberland
	descriptive text:-	West 1778 (11th edn 1821)
		Guide book, A Guide to the Lakes, by Thomas West, published by William Pennington, Kendal, Cumbria once Westmorland, and in London, 1778 to 1821.
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		Addendum; Mr Gray's Journal, 1769
		Page 202:-
		...
		Oct. 2. I set out at ten for Keswick [from Penrith], by the road we went in 1767; say (sic) Greystock town and castle to the right, which lie about three miles from Ulls-water over the fells; ...
	placename:-	Greystock Castle
	date:-	1769
	period:-	18th century, late; 1760s
	old map:-	Bowen and Kitchin 1760
		New Map of the Counties of Cumberland and Westmoreland, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, Emanuel Bowen and Thomas Kitchin, published by T Bowles, John Bowles and Son, Robert Sayer, and John Tinney, 1760; published 1760-87.
		Graystock Cast.
		circle and line on edge of an outline of fence palings, trees
	placename:-	Graystock Castle
	date:-	1760
	period:-	18th century, late; 1760s
	descriptive text:-	Simpson 1746
		The three volumes of maps and descriptive text published as 'The Agreeable Historian, or the Compleat English Traveller ...', by Samuel Simpson, 1746.
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		Drumburgh Castle and
		Greystock-Castle, both Seats of his Grace Edward Howard, Duke of Norfolk, Hereditary Earl Marshall and first Duke of England, after the Princes of the Royal Family. He marry'd a Daughter of Edward Blount, Esq; of Blagden in Devonshire, and his Lady Arabella, the Daughter of Sir John Guise, Bart. of Rencomb in Gloucestershire. Another of whose Daughters is marry'd to his Grace's Brother, the Hon. Philip Howard, Esq;
	placename:-	Greystock Castle
	person:-	: Howard, Edward; Norfolk, Duke of
	date:-	1746
	period:-	18th century, early; 1740s
	old map:-	Morden 1695 (Cmd)
		Maps, Westmorland, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, and Cumberland, scale about 3 miles to 1 inch, by Robert Morden, 1695.
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		Graystock Castle
		Circle, building with two towers; ring of fence palings, trees.
	placename:-	Graystock Castle
	county:-	Cumberland
	date:-	1695
	period:-	17th century, late; 1690s
	old map:-	Jansson 1646
		Map, Cumbria et Westmoria, or Cumberland and Westmorland, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Jansson, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1646; published 1646-1724.
		Graystok cast.
		Buildings and tower with flag in a ring of fence palings with trees.
	placename:-	Graystok Castle
	county:-	Cumberland
	date:-	1646
	period:-	17th century, early; 1640s
	old map:-	Jenner 1643
		Table of distances and map, Westmerland ie Westmorland, now Cumbria, scale about 16 miles to 1 inch, by Thomas Jenner, London, 1643.
		Grastok ca
		circle
	placename:-	Grastok Castle
	date:-	1643
	period:-	17th century, early; 1640s
	old map:-	Speed 1611 (Cmd)
		Maps, The Countie Westmorland and Kendale the Cheif Towne, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, and Cumberland and the Ancient Citie Carlile, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by John Speed, London, 1611; published 1611-1770.
		circle, buildings, tower; outline of fence palings, trees
		Grastok cast.
	placename:-	Grastok Castle
	date:-	1611
	period:-	17th century, early; 1610s
	old map:-	Saxton 1576
		Map, 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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		Grastok cast:
		Fence palings, trees, and a stag; building with two towers, symbol for a castle.
	placename:-	Grastok Castle
	county:-	Cumberlandia
		park; castle
	date:-	1576
	period:-	16th century, late; 1570s
	database:-	Listed Buildings 2010 Listed Buildings 2010
		courtesy of English Heritage
		GREYSTOKE CASTLE / / / GREYSTOKE / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II[star] / 73832 / NY4354330893
		courtesy of English Heritage
		Castle rebuilt as a country house. On a medieval site incorporating parts of the building licensed to crenellate 1353, for the Greystock family. Damaged during the Civil War, partly rebuilt in late C17 and refronted 1710 for the Howard family, with mid C18 alterations for 10th Duke of Norfolk. 1789 wing and further alterations for the 11th Duke of Norfolk; extensive refacing dated 1839 on lead rainwater heads (completed 1846) by Anthony Salvin for Henry Howard, and further work by Salvin after a fire in 1868, for the same owner; mid C20 restoration for Stafford Howard. Mixed pink and yellow sandstone ashlar, the earlier parts large blocks of sandstone rubble, with string courses and battlemented parapets; graduated slate roof, flat on tower; banded red sandstone ashlar chimney stacks. Left 2-storey, 9-bay wing with rear angled central 4-storey rectangular tower and projecting right wing of numerous bays, which has been reduced to a single storey and built around a small courtyard. The left wing appears to be almost completely Salvin's work, but is within earlier gable end walls. Central 2-storey porch and projecting end bays. Porch has flat-headed chamfered-surround doorway with hoodmould, under a large mullion-and-transomed window, the parapet carved with Howard coat-of-arms flanked by constituent family arms. Recessed bays and projections have irregular large mullioned-and-transomed windows. Parapet finials are heraldic supporters with pendants. The right wing projects in 2 stages; the first stage a single bay with a small angle turret; the second stage has an angled wall with 3 blocked Gothic windows under hoodmoulds, the remainder of the wall with slit vents. Left return wall of the main wing is partly medieval; a right-angled buttress has a shouldered-arched doorway leading into a small mural chamber; a further parallel buttress has a blocked shouldered-arched upper-floor doorway, the recess filled with an unusual inscribed socket stone. The rear of this wing has again been refaced by Salvin but its irregularity suggests earlier walls within. 2 storeys, 3 bays with right recessed bay and end projecting bay. Various mullioned windows with cusped heads, a left canted bay window and right 2-storey bay window. The tower has 2 medieval storeys over a vaulted basement, with a further 2 storeys added, with battlements, in late C18; C18 Gothic windows, those on upper floors 2-light with trefoil heads. 1789 wing, now single-storey: C19 2-light stone-mullioned windows and base of polygonal angle tower. Part of the courtyard wall retains a blocked upper-floor pointed-arched window. The remainder of the courtyard filled with C20 garages, woodstore, storerooms and toilets. Interior is Salvin's work after the fire.
	placename:-	Greystoke Castle
	district:-	Eden
		listed building
	coordinates:-	NY43543089
	date:-	2010
	period:-	2010s
	database:-	Listed Buildings 2010 Listed Buildings 2010
		courtesy of English Heritage
		SOUTH LODGE AND GATEWAY ADJOINING, EAST OF GREYSTOKE CASTLE / / / GREYSTOKE / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 73843 / NY4398430903
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		Lodge and main gateway to Greystoke Castle. Dated and inscribed H.H. 1846 (Henry Howard). Dressed mixed pink and grey sandstone walls, under graduated greenslate roof with raised coped gables; ashlar ridge chimney stacks. Single storey, 2 bays with right gate archway at right-angles. Segmental arch under Howard coat-of-arms and stepped battlemented parapet. Left smaller pedestrian doorway. Lodge has front centre plank door in Tudor-arched surround and flanking 2-light stone-mullioned windows. Left return wall, continuous with the archway, has angled bay window.
	district:-	Eden
		listed building -- gateway
	coordinates:-	NY43983090
	date:-	2010
	period:-	2010s
	database:-	Listed Buildings 2010 Listed Buildings 2010
		courtesy of English Heritage
		GATEPIERS AND GARDEN WALL NORTH EAST OF GREYSTOKE CASTLE / / / GREYSTOKE / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 73835 / NY4359830930
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		Gate piers and wall. Dated and inscribed 1839 and 1846 H.H. (Henry Howard), probably by Anthony Salvin. Mixed sandstone rubble walls and ashlar piers. Wall with moulded coping in U-plan, with central square gate piers under supporters and coats-of-arms, the rear part of the shields dated and inscribed, indicating the start and finishing dates of the first alterations to Greystoke Castle by Salvin. The wooden gate has palings incorporating the Howard coat-of-arms. Listed for group value with Greystoke Castle.
	district:-	Eden
		listed building -- gate piers
	coordinates:-	NY43593093
	date:-	2010
	period:-	2010s
	database:-	Listed Buildings 2010 Listed Buildings 2010
		courtesy of English Heritage
		CLOCK TOWER NORTH WEST OF GREYSTOKE CASTLE / / / GREYSTOKE / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 73833 / NY4351330944
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		Tower, formerly part of a wing of Greystoke Castle. 1789 for the 11th Duke of Norfolk. Coursed pink sandstone rubble with string courses, eaves modillions, battlemented parapet and raised quoins, on chamfered plinth. 4-storey heptagonal tower, now merely a shell without floors or roof. Pointed-arched doorway. Various rectangular, round and segmental openings, some of them blind, and 2 upper-floor clock faces. The ground floor was formerly the Brew House, under the upstairs-maids' dining room. Listed for group value with Greystoke Castle.
	district:-	Eden
		listed building -- clock tower
	coordinates:-	NY43513094
	date:-	2010
	period:-	2010s
	database:-	Listed Buildings 2010 Listed Buildings 2010
		courtesy of English Heritage
		STABLE BLOCK NORTH OF GREYSTOKE CASTLE / / / GREYSTOKE / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 73836 / NY4348831060
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		Stable block for Greystoke Castle. Late C18 or early C19. Pink sandstone ashlar walls with string course, eaves modillions and raised quoins. Graduated hipped greenslate roof. Rear catslide roof of Welsh slate. Recessed 2 storeys, 5 bays, with flanking projections of 2 bays, the left return wall of 3 bays and the right return wall of 5 bays, forming a rough H-shape. Central Tudor-Gothic doorway and windows, some with glazing bars. The projections have similar doorways, partly blocked, and similar upper-floor windows, between which are 3 large incised H's (Howard). Return walls have similar windows and doorways, the left wall with pointed-arched windows. A drawing of 1825 by Sir George Pococke, shows the rear of this building in a distant view of the castle.
	district:-	Eden
		listed building -- stable
	coordinates:-	NY43483106
	date:-	2010
	period:-	2010s
	database:-	Listed Buildings 2010 Listed Buildings 2010
		courtesy of English Heritage
		GARDEN WALL AND GATEWAYS NORTH WEST OF GREYSTOKE CASTLE / / / GREYSTOKE / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 73834 / NY4348530968
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		Garden wall and 2 gateways. Late C18 with mid C19 alterations. Mixed grey and pink sandstone rubble. Low wall of varying height, under flat coping stones; the northern end having 2 C18 square rusticated gate piers, with side supporting scrolls (similar piers were in front of the castle and are shown on a drawing of 1825). A C19 Tudor-Gothic doorway has been cut through the southern end of the wall, with the Howard motto inscribed on a ribbon scroll. Listed for group value with Greystoke Castle.
	district:-	Eden
		listed building -- gateway
	coordinates:-	NY43483096
	date:-	2010
	period:-	2010s
	road book:-	Cary 1798 (2nd edn 1802)
		Road book, Cary's New Itinerary, by John Cary, published by G and J Cary, 86 St James's Street, London, 1798-1828.
		page 273-274
		About 4 Miles on the l. of Penrith is Graystock Castle, Duke of Norfolk.
		page 289-290
		About 4 Miles from Penrith is Graystock Castle, Duke of Norfolk.
		page 321-322
		Between 3 and 4 Miles on l. of Hutton is Graystock Castle, Duke of Norfolk.
	placename:-	Graystock Castle
	person:-	: Norfolk, Duke of
	date:-	1802
	period:-	19th century, early; 1800s
	descriptive text:-	Hearne and Byrne 1786
		Book, Antiquities of Great Britain, prints from drawings by Thomas Hearne, engraved by William Byrne, published by Hearne and Byrne, London, 1786; published 1786-1807.
		Print, engraving, View of Greystoke Castle, Greystoke, Cumberland now Cumbria, by Thomas Hearne, engraved by William Byrne, published by them, London, 1786.
		Plate 1 ?from the Antiquities of Great Britain, published 1786-1807.
		Blazon of the first quarter in the quartered part of coat of arms is the Howard Family's 'gules on a bend between six cross crosslets fitchee argent on an escutcheon thereon a demi-lion rampart pierced through the mouth with an arrow within a double tressure flory counterflory'.
		with descriptive text:-
		GREYSTOKE CASTLE.
		This Castle, under which, the lands within that part of Cumberland called the Barony of Greystoke were held by military tenure, takes its name from Cray or Craig, a Rock, and Stoke, a Place.
		Ranulph de Meschines, the great northern Grantee from William the Conqueror, gave this Barony to Lyulph, a Saxon Lord, who had been of great note in the time of Edward the Confessor, and in whose male line it continued for many years, during which time they were summoned to Parliament as Barons of Greystoke.
		In the reign of Henry VII. Elizabeth, the Grand-daughter of the last Lord of Greystoke, was married to Thomas Lord Dacre of Gillesland, in whose family it continued till the reign of Queen Elizabeth; when this Castle and Barony were, upon a division, assigned to Ann, sister and co-heir of George, the last Lord Dacre, who was married to Philip, eldest son of Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk, to whose male heir it now belongs.
		The ancient part of this Castle was built by William Lord Greystoke, who was surnamed the Good: he died in the 32d of Edward III. and was buried with great solemnity in the chancel of the parish church of this place.
		The old castle is said to have been originally quadrangular, uniting four Towers and a Gate-way. The greatest part of it was burnt in the civil wars, during the reign of Charles I. however, there yet remains two of the old Towers, one of which is entire, of three Stories in height, and contains six Bed-chambers, and a large Vault or Dungeon below, formerly a Prison, now made use of as a Wine-cellar.
		The ancient Tower, which is the principal object in the Print, is obliquely situated with respect to the other parts of the Castle, the chief part of which was rebuilt and modernized in the beginning of this century.
		The Drawing was taken in the year 1777.
	person:-	: Howard Family
	person:-	: Lyulph; Greystoke, Baron of
	person:-	: Dacre Family
	date:-	1778
	period:-	18th century, late
		photographs
		Greystoke Castle -- Greystoke -- Greystoke -- Cumbria / -- Gate house. -- 19.8.2011
		Greystoke Castle -- Greystoke -- Greystoke -- Cumbria / -- Gate, coat of arms; Howard on the left, Greystoke on the right. -- 19.8.2011
	hearsay	Pele built 1353; inclosed by 18th-19th century additions.
	story	Charles Howard, Duke of Norfolk, hunted with hounds, even on a Sunday. One Sunday a gentleman in black asked if he could join the chase, and was afterward invited to spend the night. He was lodged in the Pele, and in the morning had gone, leaving a neat pile of clothes and the bed slept in. His black horse had gone from the locked stable. Local folk were sure it was the Devil. Visitors in the Pele room, in February, are disturbed by a spectre of the Devil.
	Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008

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