Lamonby
History
The name "Lambenemy" is recorded for the hamlet in 1257. Limestone was quarried at Lamonby in earlier centuries. A topographical dictionary of 1808 records 43 houses and 244 inhabitants.
Lamonby Hall, a Grade II listed building, is described as late 16th- or early 17th-century with 20th-century alterations. It is built of large blocks of sandstone rubble with cement rendering and a greenslate roof with banded sandstone chimney stacks. After the Reformation, the hall is said to have included a Roman Catholic chapel. In the reign of Elizabeth, a certain Juliana Buckle of Yorkshire bought the hall on account of the chapel and kept a priest there for as long as it remained safe to do so. The chapel appears to be the origin of a piece of floral carving used in the large, segmental-arched main fireplace.
Also listed Grade II are the thatched Lamonby Farm House and barns (mid-17th-century with 19th- and 20th-century alterations) and Lamonby House and barns (1703 with 19th-century additions). Two cottages and a barn in Lamonby are said to be among the few surviving clay-built houses in Cumbria. They are built on stone foundations and have a cruck construction of curved timbers meeting at the roof ridge.
"Lammonby" on 28 January 1845 was the scene of a notoriously brutal infanticide by a drunken mother. According to The Times of a few days later, "On Tuesday evening, the 28th ult., [the mother] made up a large fire in the kitchen of her own house, with the determination of sacrificing her child in the flames.... She stripped off all the child's clothes and hid them in a hole behind the inner door of the ashmidden, and having done so took the child by its legs and arms and literally roasted it to death."
Wind farm
A planning application for a wind farm of five 100-metre turbines at Lamonby was submitted in 2005 by a power company, E.ON UK. The application was withdrawn in March 2009, after 700 letters of objection had been received.
See also
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References
- ^ Parish Action Plan, c. 2009. Retrieved 25 August 2015.
- ^ "Surname Database: Lamonby Last Name Origin".
- ^ David Mills: A Dictionary of British Place Names (Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford UP, 2011 [1991]).
- ^ Benjamin Martin: The Natural History of England... (London, 1763), p. 325 Retrieved 26 August 2015.
- ^ Benjamin Pitts Capper Esq.: A Topographical Dictionary of the United Kingdom... (London, 1808, alphabetical). Retrieved 26 August 2015.
- ^ The History and Topography of the Counties of Cumberland and Westmoreland (London, 1860) Retrieved 26 August 2015.
- ^ British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 25 August 2015.
- ^ British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 26 August 2015.
- ^ The Buildings of the Countryside, 1500–1750, ed. M. W. Barley (Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge UP, 1990), p. 71. Retrieved 26 August 2015.
- ^ Emma Butcher: "A 'most barbarous and revolting murder'". History Today, Vol 65/8, August 2015, p. 3.
- ^ Cumberland & Westmorland Herald, 6 March 2009. Retrieved 26 August 2015.
External links
- Cumbria County History Trust: Skelton (nb: provisional research only – see Talk page)