Eskdale Farms

Eskdale Farms and Dwellings

I have used spellings from the 2002 Ordnance Survey - where I have found them - but also any others I have encountered! The main text is, roughly, working upstream but I have added a list in alphabetical order which is linked to the main text (or individual pages).

Armenthowes, Armit House, Armont House, Ashdale, Bakerstead, Bank House, Beckfoot, Birdhow, Bleabeck, Birdhow, Boot, Borradail Place, Bought, Bout, Bridge End, Brook House, Botherelket, Botherilkeld, Brotherilkeld, Browfoot, Brow Gate, Browyeat, Butterilket, Christcliff, Christcliffe, Church House, Dalegarth Hall, Dawson Ground, Eskdale Mill, Esk View Farm, Fisher Ground, Gatehouse, Gatehouse Green, Gill bank, Hardknott Castle, Harmothows, Harmuthhows, Hermatehowes, High Wha House, High Whoes, Hollin How, Hollinghow, Hollin Head, Hollinghead, Hollins, Hows, Knott End, Langregreen, Langrig, Langrigg Green, Longrigg Green, Low Birker, Low Holme, Low Place, Miterdale Head, Moorhead, Paddockwray, Penny Hill Farm, Piet's Nest, Pyat Nest, Randlehow, Randal How, Randelhow Cottage, Red Brow, Redd-Brow, Spot How, Spout House, Sword House, Sword House (Miterdale), Taw House, Toes, Underbank, Whaes, Whase, wha_house.htm, Whincop, Whinney Wood, Whoes, Woolpack Inn, Yathouse, Yattus, Yeathouse, Yethouse, Yoadeparke

(Family names and dates are simply jottings relating to my family history research)

Eskdale

Ashdale - an alternative name / spelling for Eskdale, Eskdaille

Randlehow, Randelhow, Randal how SD143998

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Bank House SD 145999

- believed close to Randlehow (sequence of entries in Percy Survey, Land tax returns, etc.

Found on Thomas Donald's 1774 map

Later known as Randlehow Cottage? No.

Hartley 1578

James Russell was born in Bank House in 1738 and brought up his family there, but died at Randlehow in 1828. His son John Russell made his will at Randlehow Cottage in 1838, and died there in 1851

Yattus, Yat House, Yathouse, Yatthouse, Yethouse, Yeathouse, Yate Houses, Gatehouse NY143001

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Brant Rake

Sword House SD149991

Forge House

Milkinstead

Red Brow NY157001

On 10th January 1693/3 Joseph Leech was refused a licence for Redd-Brow as a Quaker meeting house. Nicholas Nicholson was living here from at least 1708. His wife Frances died here in 1725, followed by Nicholas himself in 1728. The settling of his estate was administered by his daughter Elizabeth

Hollin How, Hollinghow NY14800

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Hollinghead NY 15220018

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Fisherground NY 15220018

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Spout House NY158003

Hartley 1728, 1731, 1740, 1751, 1752

Hollinhead Cottage

Between Spout House and the road - not the same (I think!) as Hollin Head /Hollinghead.

Beckfoot

Dalegarth Hall

Boot, Bought, Bout - the area where the Whillan Beck meets the Esk

Borradail Place

William Hartley Eskdale 24 Book 1587

Bridge End

Brook House

Eskdale Mill

Hows

Hollins

Gill Bank, Gilbank NY181018

(On the bank of the Whillan Beck, 800m upstream from Boot)

Wilson 1684 (Will), 1713 (Will), 1734 (Will), 1738 - 48,

Paddock Wray, Paddockwrey, Padack-Wray NY183012

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Christcliffe, Christ Clift, Christcliffe, Chiscliffe, Christ Clife NY18690110

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Woolpack Inn, Dasson Ground, Dawson Place, Dawson Ground NY190000

It seems there were two separate dwellings, at least in the early eighteenth century, Dawson Place and Dawson Ground.

For information see www.woolpack.co.uk/history.doc or Dawson Ground

Hartley 1720, 1721, Vickers 1727-1738, Vickers 1735, 1738, 1744, Gibson 1735, 1736, Jackson 1746, Dickinson 1763, 1786