Fell Foot Park
Fell Foot Park is a country park, formerly the grounds of a Victorian house, spread out beside the waters of Windermere, on the Lancashire shore of that lake, near Staveley-in-Cartmel. The park is in the ownership of the National Trust.
The estate was owned by Jeremiah Dixon, Mayor of Leeds in 1784.[1] Dixon sold the estate in 1859 to Colonel G J M Ridehalgh (1835-1892). Ridehalgh was a man of activity: a director of the North Lonsdale Iron and Steel Company, Colonel of the 2nd Westmorland Volunteer Battalion of the Border Regiment[2] and one of the founder members of the Royal Windermere Yacht Club. The house was demolished in 1907 to build a larger replacement, but the project was abandoned when the then owner died. The estate was given to the National Trust in 1948.[3][4]
The manager's house (originally built as a gas works),[3] several boathouses including one converted to a cafeteria,[5][6][7] and a workshop and dock[8] are Grade II listed buildings. They were built for Colonel Ridehalgh.[3]
The park's buildings were flooded during the 2015–16 floods.[9]
Outside links
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- Location map: 54°16’30"N, 2°57’8"W
- Fell Foot - information at the National Trust
- Illustrated guide to Fell Foot Park
- [http://www.geog.port.ac.uk/webmap/thelakes/html/lgaz/lk03724.htm Gazetteer: Fell Foot
- Picture of Fell Foot House
References
- ↑ Lord Mayors & Aldermen of Leeds since 1626 - Leeds City Council
- ↑ 'Grace's Guide to British Industrial History: George John Miller Ridehalgh'
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 National Heritage List 1225513: Manager's House, Fell Foot Park
- ↑ Fell Foot Park on About Britain
- ↑ National Heritage List 1225561: Southern boathouse at Fell Foot Park
- ↑ National Heritage List 1266317: Northern boathouse at Fell Foot Park
- ↑ National Heritage List 1225511: Cafetria, Information centre and adjoining boathouse at Fell Foot Park
- ↑ National Heritage List 1225512: Workshop and adjoining dock at Fell Foot Park
- ↑ "Flooding at Fell Foot". National Trust. http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/fell-foot/features/flooding-at-fell-foot. Retrieved 22 May 2016.
- Hubbard, Alan (1 May 2015). Planning Policy Statement: Fell Foot Project, Fell Foot, Windermere: Development of the Historic Fell Foot Estate. National Trust. http://www.lakedistrict.gov.uk/swiftlg/TempMedia/62269-207457.pdf. Note especially Appendix 1, Pages 36-38: "Fell Foot Park, Statement of Significance" for history of the estate.
