Old Cumbria Gazetteer

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	placename:-	Wythop Hall
	locality:-	Wythop
	parish	Wythop parish, once in Cumberland
	county:-	Cumbria
		building/s; park; castle
	coordinates:-	NY20312844
	10Km square:-	NY22
	1Km square	NY2028
	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.
		outline of fence palings, trees
	date:-	1760
	period:-	18th century, late; 1760s Derwent Fells, Above Derwent
	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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		Marked within a ring of fence palings, trees.
	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.
		Widehope
		Buildings and tower in a ring of fence palings with trees.
	placename:-	Widehope
	county:-	Cumberland
	date:-	1646
	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.
		Widehope
		circle, tower, in a ring of fence palings
	placename:-	Widehope
	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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		Tower, symbol for a house, hall, tower, etc; in a ring of fence palings.
		Widehope
	placename:-	Widehope
	county:-	Cumberlandia
		house; park
	date:-	1576
	period:-	16th century, late; 1570s
	database:-	Listed Buildings 2010 Listed Buildings 2010
		courtesy of English Heritage
		WYTHOP HALL AND ADJOINING FORMER STABLES / / / WYTHOP / ALLERDALE / CUMBRIA / II / 72212 / NY2029128404
		courtesy of English Heritage
		Farmhouse and adjoining former stables. Probably mid C16 with extension dated and inscribed F. & V.F. 1678 (Fletcher) with late C19 alterations. Rendered walls on irregular plinth, under graduated greenslate roof with C19 rusticated chimney stacks. 2 storeys, 3 bays with right-angled stables to right, forming overall L-shape, originally the hall and kitchen range of courtyard plan, attached to a fortified house. C19 enlarged 2-light sash windows under continuous C16 hoodmoulds. Porch at right side has top-glazed 6-panel door in painted architrave under dated lintel. Former stables of whitewashed rubble under corrugated iron roof. Ground-floor 3-light stone-mullioned window, plank doors and upper-floor casement window. Gable wall has enlarged C20 garage entrance with loft doorway above. House has C17 outshut and further C19 extension to rear. For details of the tower which was given a licence to crenellate 12 July 1318, see M.W. Taylor, Old Manorial Halls of Westmorland & Cumberland, C.W. extra series, vol. viii, pp324-5.
	placename:-	Wythop Hall
	district:-	Allerdale
		listed building -- stable
	coordinates:-	NY20292840
	date:-	2010
	period:-	2010s
	hearsay	Perhaps on the site of a house which Hugh de Lowther had a licenece to crenellate 1318. The rebuilding of 1678 includes none of this.
	Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008

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