Greenholme

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

54°26′43″N 2°37′18″W / 54.445181°N 2.621617°W / 54.445181; -2.621617

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