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placename:- Sella Park House
parish St Bridget Beckermet parish, once in Cumberland
county:- Cumbria
building/s; park
coordinates:- NY04350545
10Km square:- NY00

1Km square NY0405

photograph

Sella Park House -- St Bridget Beckermet -- Cumbria / -- 13.10.2006

old text:- Camden 1789 (Gough Additions)

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 181:-
...
A mile lower on the rill to the sea lies Silla park, a cell and park of this house [Calder Abbey].

placename:- Silla Park
date:- 1789
period:- 18th century, late; 1780s

Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008

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