Old Cumbria Gazetteer

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	placename:-	Millbeck Farm
	locality:-	Great Langdale
	parish	Lakes parish, once in Westmorland
	county:-	Cumbria
		building/s
	coordinates:-	NY29500661
	10Km square:-	NY20
	1Km square	NY2906
		Millbeck Farm -- Great Langdale -- Lakes -- Cumbria / -- 17.11.2005
	source:-	Martineau 1855
		Guide book, A Complete Guide to the English Lakes, by Harriet Martineau, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, and by Whittaker and Co, London, 1855; published 1855-71.
		Page 146:-
		... Four miles from the top of the Stake will bring him down to Langdale Head; and two miles more, to the farmhouse of Milbeck.
		From that farmhouse, where travellers can make a good meal of farmhouse fare, there is one thing to be done without doubt;- to visit Dungeon Ghyll. As for the rest, this house is the point of departure in various directions, ...
		Strangers who arrive untired generally go to the Ghyll while their ham and eggs are preparing. ...
	placename:-	Milbeck
	date:-	1855
	period:-	19th century, late; 1850s
	descriptive text:-	Otley 1823 (5th edn 1834)
		Guidebook, Concise Description of the English Lakes, later A Description of the English Lakes, by Jonathan Otley, published by the author, Keswick, Cumberland, by J Richardson, London, and by Arthur Foster, Kirky Lonsdale, Cumbria, 1823 onwards.
		goto source.
		Page 104:-
		... Mill Beck is the stream flowing from Stickle Tarn, and gives name to two farm-houses, at one of which it may be convenient to leave the horses, while visiting Dungeon Gill. ...
	date:-	1823
	period:-	19th century, early; 1820s
	database:-	Listed Buildings 2010 Listed Buildings 2010
		courtesy of English Heritage
		MILLBECK FARMHOUSE WITH ATTACHED FARM BUILDING / / / LAKES / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 452284 / NY2950406614
		courtesy of English Heritage
		C17. White-washed stone rubble, slate roof and squat square chimneys, 2 storeys. Open gabled porch, 3 windows on each floor (small modern casements, but one old very small wood-mullioned window on ground floor). Extension to right under same roof has a door with a window above it. Stone rubble stable and loft continue to left under a higher roof.
	placename:-	Millbeck Farm
	district:-	South Lakeland
		listed building
	coordinates:-	NY29500661
	date:-	2010
	period:-	2010s
	Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008

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