Greenholme Explained

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, 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

54.4452°N -2.6216°W

Notes and References

1. Web site: Greenholme, Eden. OS GetOutside. Ordnance Survey. 2019-08-05.
2. News: Greenholme Gala and Agricultural Show is a 'whirlwind' success . 2013-06-13 . The Westmorland Gazette. 2019-08-05.
3. Web site: Greenholme Gala and Agricultural Show. Orton and Tebay Local History Society. 2019-08-05.
4. Book: John F Curwen. Parishes (East Ward): All Saints', Orton. The Later Records Relating To North Westmorland Or the Barony of Appleby. 1932.
5. Book: The Diocese of Carlisle, 1814-1855: Chancellor Walter Fletcher's `Diocesan Book', with additional material from Bishop Percy's parish notebooks. Jane Platt. The Surtees Society and the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society. 2015.
6. Web site: Orton. Cumbria County History Trust.
7. Book: John F Curwen. 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. 1913.
8. Web site: Castle Howe. Historic England. 2019-08-05.