7. Farm-house, occupied by the owner.
The house was rebuilt in 1743, by Christopher Brown, master mariner, of Barrow.
8. Cottage, occupied by Thomas Woodburn, labourer.
The Cottage was built about the year 1780, and was occupied for some 40 years by
Christopher Wilkinson, ore-weigher, who died here in September 1822, aged 84.
9. Dwelling-house and shop occupied by John Hartley, grocer, lately vacated by George
Fell, retired farmer.The house was built about 1830 in place of an old cottage which
was occupied at the beginning of last century by Seth Falshaw, labourer, the husband
of Mary Falshaw, the schoolmistress.
The house was built in the 18th century, and like the other farm-houses in the village,
occupied the site of one of the homesteads founded by the monks of Furness for their
tenants.
Peggy Wilkinson succeeded Mary Falshaw as the village school-mistress.
10. Cart shed, occupied by the owner.
This shed had originally been a one storey thatched cottage, built about the middle
of the 18th century. The Cottage was occupied for the first thirty years of last
century by Matthew Dixon, ore-loader, who left it on account of its dilapidated condition.
He was a native of Barrow, born in 1777.
11. Dwelling-house, known as Ivy Cottage, occupied by John Fisher, gentleman. He
was the only gentleman in the village. The house was built about the year 1820.
12. House and shop, occupied by Thomas Sherwin, grocer. The premises had been occupied
by William Barker, grocer, till his death, about 1835.
13. Dwelling-house, occupied by Richard Cornthwaite, afterwards of Cocken farm. Former
tenants were Captain James Storey, Captain Thomas Mattix, (both master mariners)
and Thomas Hodgson, Custom’s officer. The latter removed from here in 1835 to the
house No 6.The property was built on land leased to Wm Barker in 1803 by the Newland
Iron Company for a term of 1000 years at a yearly rent of one peppercorn. OWNER.
THE EARL OF BURLINGTON
14. Dwelling-house, occupied by Robert Reay, shipping agent. The house was built
about the year 1825 for William Harrison, farmer, son of Betty Harrison, who then
resided in the old farm-house, the ‘Burlington Arms’ Inn. (See No 18).
15. Malt-kiln, occupied by James Tyson, farmer, innkeeper, and maltster.
The kiln was built early in the 19th century, and was rented for many years by Joseph
Fisher, farmer and maltster, who resided at No 26.
16. Iron Ore yard, occupied by Thomas Atkinson, Matthew Denney and George Ashburner
in the 18th century. In 1801 James Harrison, farmer, and victualler, was the occupier.
He was succeeded by his son Thomas, whose widow Betty kept the inn till her death.
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