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Gaitsgill, Dalston, CARLISLE, CA5 7AH

The two storey white house used to be a pub called the Royal Oak. Don't know when it closed, but seems to have been still a pub in 1984, when it and the adjoining cottage (rt) were given listed building status http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-78316-royal-oak-and-adjoining-house-dalston-cum#.WFhmp33Dsrg . The Pen Beck runs between the houses and the road.

The Pen Beck runs alongside the main street through the hamlet of Gaitsgill.

The mark can be found on Gaitsgill Bridge. This benchmark has a recorded height of 69.232 metres above sea level. For more detail see : https://www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm138388

To Cumberland County Council it is the former whilst to the Ordnance Survey it is the latter.

Looking westward.

Dalston Parish Council noticeboard, telephone box and post box. There was a notice from BT in the phone box saying that it was not being used sufficiently to continue pay phone service at this location. A request had been made by the Community Heartbeat Trust to adopt the kiosk and install a heart defibrillator.

Village hall, built in 1885 by Lt Col Carleton Salkeld of Holm(e) Hill for workers on his estate. The hall is named after the Primrose League, an organisation for Conservative Party supporters founded two years previously https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primrose_League (information from 'The Cumbria Village Book' reproduced here http://www.visitoruk.com/Carlisle/gaitsgill-C592-V27124.html ). There is a plaque above the door - see Image . Primrose hall, together with two adjoining cottages, is a listed building http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=78315 .

Door to the village hall shown here Image . For a closer view of the plaque, see Image .

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 .

Entering the hamlet from the south.