Greenholme is a hamlet in Cumbria, England.[1]
The Greenholme Gala and Agricultural Show is held there annually.[2][3]
Greenholme Bridge crosses the Birk Beck in the hamlet. This bridge appears upon a 1679 list of public bridges.[4]
Greenholme School was founded in 1733 as a Free Grammar School, and as of 1817 held 20 to 40 pupils.[5] It closed c.1963.[6]
The hamlet of Lower Greenholme some 600 yards to the south-east is the site of a putative motte-and-bailey castle, located on the south bank of where the Birk Beck bends sharply east,[4] and conjectured to be an outpost of Castle Howe,[7] although the site is currently interpreted as probably consisting of only natural features.[8]
References edit
- ^ "Greenholme, Eden". OS GetOutside. Ordnance Survey. Retrieved 5 August 2019.
- ^ "Greenholme Gala and Agricultural Show is a 'whirlwind' success". The Westmorland Gazette. 13 June 2013. Retrieved 5 August 2019.
- ^ "Greenholme Gala and Agricultural Show". Orton and Tebay Local History Society. Retrieved 5 August 2019.
- ^ a b John F Curwen (1932). "Parishes (East Ward): All Saints', Orton". The Later Records Relating To North Westmorland Or the Barony of Appleby.
- ^ Jane Platt, ed. (2015). The Diocese of Carlisle, 1814-1855: Chancellor Walter Fletcher's `Diocesan Book', with additional material from Bishop Percy's parish notebooks. The Surtees Society and the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society.
- ^ "Orton". Cumbria County History Trust.
- ^ John F Curwen (1913). The Castles and Fortified Towers of Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire North-of-the-Sands, Together with a Brief Historical Account of Border Warfare: Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, Extra Series, Vol. XIII.
- ^ "Castle Howe". Historic England. Retrieved 5 August 2019.