Dated inscription, Primrose Hall
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Dated inscription, Primrose Hall
Image: © Rose and Trev Clough Taken: 21 Apr 2016
Above the door to Image . It says 'LIEUT. COL. CARLETON SALKELD BUILT THIS HALL A.D.1885'. There is a shield with a diagonal lattice ('fretty' in heraldic terms). Other examples of Salkeld coats of arms in Cumbria are shown here http://www.geog.port.ac.uk/webmap/thelakes/html/topics/arms0087.htm . Colonel Salkeld was a local landowner who lived at Holme Hill (or Holm Hill), a mansion now occupied by Lime House School http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/279353 . For more information about the hamlet of Gaitsgill see extract from 'The Cumbria Village Book', written 1991 http://www.visitoruk.com/Carlisle/gaitsgill-C592-V27124.html .
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Image Location
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54.812127
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-2.953632