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    Grizedale Hall was a large country house at Grizedale, Hawkshead, in the Lake District in Cumbria, England. After two earlier Grizedale Halls had preceded...
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    café and shop. The car-parking of Grizedale Forest Visitors Centre is situated on the site of the former Grizedale Hall where its remains can be still seen...
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    the home of Grizedale Arts, a contemporary arts residency and commissioning agency. Grizedale is the location of the former Grizedale Hall – a forty-room...
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    of war (POW) in the hands of the British, initially at No 1 POW camp Grizedale Hall in Cumbria. In March 1942, the prisoners were transported to Bowmanville...
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  • Woodfield Farm Camp Churchdown Gloucestershire 1 Grizedale Hall Grizedale, Satterthwaite Cumbria 2 Toft Hall Toft, Knutsford Cheshire 2 Woodhouselee Camp...
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    to a group of German generals, imprisoned in the No. 1 POW camp in Grizedale Hall in the north of England from 9 August 1945, as a Political Intelligence...
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  • Sir Philip Sassoon. Eventually, Werra was sent to POW Camp No. 1, at Grizedale Hall in the Furness Fells area of Lancashire, between Windermere and Coniston...
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    custody. He was held first at Wilton Park in Buckinghamshire, then at Grizedale Hall in northern Lancashire, then at Island Farm near Bridgend in Glamorgan...
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  • "calling RAF, calling RAF." At the prisoner-of-war camp, which was called Grizedale Hall, he was in the Furness area of Lancashire. The POWs were rambling, then...
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    Initially two prisoner of war camps were established: Camp No. 1, Grizedale Hall, Cumbria This forty-room mansion was reserved for officers and became...
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    U-570's officers were taken to an officers' prisoner-of-war camp at Grizedale Hall in Cumbria. This was nicknamed U-boat Hotel by the British as, during...
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  • Hall Eccle Riggs Eden Hall (demolished) Fawe Park Flass Graythwaite Hall Greystoke Castle Grizedale Hall (demolished) Hampsfield House Helsfell Hall High...
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  • thriller novel by James Follet, taking place at 1941 in the POW Camp at Grizedale Hall at England's Lake District, where some of the most capable of the German...
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  • 20, 1940, January 21, 1941 – On his first (solo) attempt from camp Grizedale Hall, Franz von Werra was recaptured on October 12. His second involved four...
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    general). Herff was taken prisoner by British forces in 1945, and held at Grizedale Hall POW camp. He suffered a stroke and died at nearby Conishead Priory Military...
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  • away in Hawkshead, close to Windermere in Cumbria. Daniel Rawlinson of Grizedale Hall, 1614–79, became a wine merchant in London. His son Sir Thomas Rawlinson...
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    Brocklebank a wealthy Liverpool merchant and shipping magnate. He had bought Grizedale Hall, Hawkshead in 1903 and had demolished it. He built a new grand building...
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  • was taken to the hospital at Edinburgh Castle. He saw out the war at Grizedale Hall in the Lake District, at No 1 POW Camp. He later helped Franz von Werra...
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  • After he recuperated he was sent to the No. 1 POW Camp (Officers) Grizedale Hall and then later to the POW camp from which his escape attempt was to...
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    he was Governor-General of India (1828–1835), and later returned to Grizedale Hall in Lancashire where he became a Justice of the Peace and a Deputy Lieutenant...
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    Grizedale Bridge is a Grade II listed bridge in the English parish of Over Wyresdale, Lancashire. The structure, which dates to the 19th century, carries...
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  • Brocklebank, 1st Baronet (1814–1906); his third son Harold Brocklebank built Grizedale Hall in 1905 Sir Thomas Brocklebank, 2nd Baronet (1848–1911) Sir Aubrey Brocklebank...
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    Elizabeth II in 2012. Works of art in the town hall include a painting by Lucy Kemp-Welch entitled Logging in Grizedale Forest. Listed buildings in Hawkshead Historic...
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    Grizedale Forest, and some of the finest rock in the Lake District on the eastern face of Dow Crag, 3 miles (4.8 km) from the village. The Grizedale Stages...
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    Wennington Hall is a former country house in Wennington, a village in the City of Lancaster district in Lancashire, England. The house is a Grade II listed...
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  • in the British prisoner of war camp at Island Farm, Wales, and also Grizedale Hall, in the Lake District. In February 1948 he was transferred to London...
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    Grisedale, Grizebeck Grizedale, Grizedale Forest, Gullom Holme Hackthorpe, Haile, Hailforth, Hale Halfpenny, Hall Dunnerdale, Hall Santon Hall Waberthwaite,...
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    Ashton Hall is a largely rebuilt 14th-century mansion in the civil parish of Thurnham, Lancashire, England. It is 3 miles (4.8 km) south of the city of...
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    supplemented by extensive conifer plantations in many areas, particularly Grizedale Forest in the generally lower southern part of the area. The Lake District...
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    Cockerham Vicarage Conder Bridge The Dukes Greaves Park Hotel Grand Theatre Grizedale Bridge Hornby Village Institute Lancaster Carriage and Wagon Works Lancaster...
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