Holker Hall, Grange-over-Sands, Cumbria, England

The following is from the English Heritage Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest.

DESCRIPTION

LOCATION, AREA, BOUNDARIES, LANDFORM, SETTING

Holker Hall is situated about 0.7 kilometres north-west of the village of Cark in an area which is predominantly rural and agricultural. The site, which occupies about 50 hectares, is on land which slopes gently southwards towards Morecambe Bay. The eastern boundary is formed partly by the B5278 itself and partly by properties and an estate yard fronting the west side of the road, while a band of woodland surrounds the kitchen gardens at the north-east tip of the site. The north and west sides of the site are delineated by field boundaries and a ditch which separate the park from agricultural land, salt marshes and the woodland of a former deer park, called Old Park. The southern boundary runs through Hagg Wood and continues on the east side of Holker Farm along a drive called Evergreen Walk. From here it follows the line of Black Water Beck and continues, in the south-east corner of the site, on the south side of Pedder Wood.

REFERENCES

F O Morris, A Series of Picturesque Views 6, (1866-1880), p 41

The Victoria History of the County of Lancashire 8, (1914), pp 271-272

N Pevsner, The Buildings of England: North Lancashire (1969), pp 144-145

J C Dickinson, The Land of Cartmel: A History (1980), p 80

Country Life, 167 (26 June 1980), pp 1470-1473; 168 (3 July 1980), pp 18-21; no 18 (30 April 1992), pp 46-49

Trans Cumberland Westmorland Antiq Archaeol Soc 84, (1984), pp 138-155

The Woodland Gardens of Holker Hall, guidebook, (Lord and Lady Cavendish 1991)

Historic House 16, no 2 (Summer 1992), pp 23-25

Holker Hall and Gardens, guidebook, (Lady Cavendish 1996)

Maps

C Saxton, Lancastria Comitatus Palatin Vera et Absoluta Descriptio, 1577

R Morden, The County Palatine of Lancaster, 1695

C Greenwood, The County Palatine of Lancaster, 1818

OS 6" to 1 mile: Lancashire sheet XVII, 1st edition surveyed 1847-1848

OS 25" to 1 mile: Lancashire sheet XVII.6, 1st edition surveyed 1889, published 1891

Description written: May 1998

Edited: March 1999