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Hackthorpe is a hamlet in Westmorland and Furness, in the county of Cumbria, England. Circa 1870, it had a population of 110 as recorded in the Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales . [ 1 ]
Within the parish are the settlements of Lowther Village, Newtown or Lowther Newtown, Hackthorpe, Whale, and Melkinthorpe. At the 2001 census the parish had a population of 402, [2] increasing to 465 at the 2011 Census. [1] The parish council meets at the Lowther Parish Hall in Hackthorpe. Lowther Endowed Primary School is also at Hackthorpe.
Lowther Castle is a ruined country house in Lowther, Cumbria, England. The estate has belonged to the Lowther family, latterly the earls of Lonsdale , since the Middle Ages . The house was largely built between 1806 and 1814 for William Lowther, 1st Earl of Lonsdale and designed by Robert Smirke in his first major commission.
Penrith is a town and civil parish in the Eden District, Cumbria, England.It contains 191 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England.Of these, five are listed at Grade I, the highest of the three grades, 23 are at Grade II*, the middle grade, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade.
The origins of Penrith go far back in time. There is archaeological evidence of "early, concentrated and continuous settlement" in the area. [M 1] The Neolithic (c. 4500–2350 BCE) or early-Bronze Age (c. 2500–1000 BCE) sites at nearby Mayburgh Henge, King Arthur's Round Table, Little Round Table, Long Meg and Her Daughters, and Little Meg, and the stone circles at Leacet Hill and Oddendale ...
Craithes House is a heritage-listed former rural homestead located at 34–40 Borec Road, Penrith, New South Wales, Australia. It was built in 1870. It was built in 1870. The property is privately owned.
Its most prominent building is its hall, a large square brick house, built in the late 18th century in a landscaped park of around 100 acres (0.40 km 2). [ citation needed ] Situated among the trees of the park overlooking the lake is the parish church , dedicated to St Michael and All Angels.
The village is also home to Kirkby Thore Hall, a Grade II* medieval Manor House of particular structural interest. British Gypsum, Kirkby Thore. Gypsum has been quarried or mined in the area for over 200 years. The local British Gypsum Ltd [8] plant has produced plaster since 1910 and plasterboard since the 1960s.