Old Cumbria Gazetteer

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	placename:-	Calgarth Park
	parish	Lakes parish, once in Westmorland
	county:-	Cumbria
		building/s
	coordinates:-	NY39700016
	10Km square:-	NY30
	1Km square	NY3900
		Calgarth Park -- Lakes -- Cumbria / -- (correct identification?) -- 12.5.2008
	source:-	Martineau 1855 -- perhaps relevant
		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 15:-
		...
		... Miller Brow. Hence is seen ... The Calgarth woods, for which we are indebted to Bishop Watson, rising and falling, spreading and contracting below, with green undulating meadows interposed, are a perfect treat to the eye; ...
	placename:-	Calgarth Woods
	person:-	: Watson, Bishop
	date:-	1855
	period:-	19th century, late; 1850s
	old map:-	Crosthwaite 1783-94 (Win/Ble) -- possibly relevant
		Series of maps, An Accurate Map of the Matchless Lake of Derwent, of the Grand Lake of Windermere, of the Beautiful Lake of Ullswater, of Broadwater or Bassenthwaite Lake, of Coniston Lake, of Buttermere, Crummock and Loweswater Lakes, and Pocklington's Island, by Peter Crosthwaite, Kendal, Cumberland now Cumbria, 1783 to 1794.
		The Palace / of Bishop Watson
		block, building/s
	placename:-	Palace, The
	person:-	: Watson, Bishop
	date:-	1783=1794
	period:-	18th century, late; 1780s; 1790s
	database:-	Listed Buildings 2010 Listed Buildings 2010
		courtesy of English Heritage
		CALGARTH PARK / / / LAKES / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 452846 / NY3973200171
		courtesy of English Heritage
		Home of Richard Watson (1737-1816) Bishop of Llandaff and Whig politician. House now appears early C19. Entrance front 3 storeys, with centre semi- circular Tuscan porch with cornice, round-headed doorway and flanking windows, two other windows on ground floor and three on 1st floor in Tuscan pilastered architraves with cornices on brackets; 3 6-paned sashes on top floor. All windows in moulded frames. Main cornice on brackets. 2-storeyed side wings in symmetrical composition, with 2 similar sash windows on each floor. Exclude modern extensions at each end. Was used as a hospital, now empty.
	placename:-	Calgarth Park
	district:-	South Lakeland
		listed building
	coordinates:-	NY39730017
	date:-	2010
	period:-	2010s
	Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008

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