Lamonby is an agricultural hamlet in the
Westmorland and Furness
Westmorland and Furness is a Unitary authorities of England, unitary authority area in Cumbria, England. The economy is mainly focused on tourism around both the Lake District and Cumbria Coast, shipbuilding and the Royal Port of Barrow, Royal ...
district, in the county of
Cumbria
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, England, about 2 km from the edge of the
Lake District National Park
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. It is located near the
B5305 road
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and the village of
Skelton, in whose parish it lies. Public transport and social or commercial facilities are absent there. The surname Lamonby originates from the hamlet.
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
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rubble with cement rendering and a
greenslate roof with banded
sandstone chimney stacks. After the
Reformation
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, the hall is said to have included a Roman Catholic chapel. In the reign of
Elizabeth
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, 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
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construction of curved timbers meeting at the roof ridge.
"Lammonby" on 28 January 1845 was the scene of a notoriously brutal
infanticide
Infanticide (or infant homicide) is the intentional killing of infants or offspring. Infanticide was a widespread practice throughout human history that was mainly used to dispose of unwanted children, its main purpose being the prevention of re ...
by a drunken mother. According to ''
The Times
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'' of a few days later, "On Tuesday evening, the 28th ult.,
he mothermade 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
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. The application was withdrawn in March 2009, after 700 letters of objection had been received.
[''Cumberland & Westmorland Herald'', 6 March 2009]
Retrieved 26 August 2015.
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See also
* Listed buildings in Skelton, Cumbria
References
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External links
Cumbria County History Trust: Skelton
(nb: provisional research only – see Talk page)
Hamlets in Cumbria
Skelton, Cumbria