Greenholme

Hamlet in Cumbria, England

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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 building

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]

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1. ^ "Greenholme, Eden". OS GetOutside. Ordnance Survey. Retrieved 5 August 2019.
2. ^ "Greenholme Gala and Agricultural Show is a 'whirlwind' success". The Westmorland Gazette. 13 June 2013. Retrieved 5 August 2019.
3. ^ "Greenholme Gala and Agricultural Show". Orton and Tebay Local History Society. Retrieved 5 August 2019.
4. ^ a b John F Curwen (1932). "Parishes (East Ward): All Saints', Orton". The Later Records Relating To North Westmorland Or the Barony of Appleby.
5. ^ 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.
6. ^ "Orton". Cumbria County History Trust.
7. ^ 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.
8. ^ "Castle Howe". Historic England. Retrieved 5 August 2019.

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