Dawson Fold

1600	Dawson Family farming Dawson Fold (1535 or before)
1655	Knipe Family occupants
1669	William Knipe Dawson Fold allocated seat in chappell
1680	Richard Frankland had an Academy at Dawson Fold
1715	Agnes Dawson (infant) burial Heversham Church
1718	Chris Dawson Yeoman Farmer
1720	Dawson fold conveyed by Roland Hewartson to John Pearson
1729	John Dickinson purchased Dawson Fold £860-7-6
1729	Kiln How 2 acres purchased from Tobias Atkinson £44-7-6
1729	Richard Docker tenant farmer
1734	John Dickinson gave Dawson Fold to his son Daniel (Robert Dickinson son of Daniel married Elizabeth Turner)
1785	14th Feb Robert Dickinson purchased dwelling house barn cow shed stable orchard garden and 1 acre of land the property of Richard Noble for £47-10-0 (Dwelling in the Row )
1795	Robert Dickinson died aged 60 ( Mathew Walling willed £350)
1815	Heversham Award John Dickinson received 4 plots of land 560 Low common allotment 643 Land between the river Gilpin and the main drainage ditch 596 Moss end with Peat Moss and 727 an Allotment at Hubbersty Crosthwaite
1834	Kendal Records office John Dickinson sold Lime to Richard Cragg for £2-17-6
1851	Census Daniel Dickinson Farming 115 acres
1860	D and W Dickinson won 1st prize with a shorthorn bull at Crosthwaite Show
1861	Census Daniel Dickinson Farmer
1867	Pulled down part of Dawson Fold and built New House
1869	Kendal Mercury April 10th Daniel Dickinson foreman of Jury, Kendal court
1871	Census Daniel Dickinson farmer
1875	Westmorland Gazette Buyer wishes to purchase Damsons at 6 shillings and sixpence to seven shillings per score
1879	Mathew Walling received a letter from Mr Dickinson asking if he was interested in taking the tenancy of Dawson Fold Farm
1880	April 27th Sale of Shorthorn cattle and sheep at Dawson Fold
1880	Mathew Walling with his son William aged 13 became tenants
1881	Census Mathew Walling farmer
1881	Census William Dickinson occupier of the new house
1884	Westmorland Gazette advert APRIL 30th Sale of effects for William Dickinson (deceased)
1884	Dickinson family left Dawson Fold to Arthur Hoggarth who had family connections with Dickinsons
1886	Westmorland Gazette report William Walling of Dawson Fold won a ploughing match at Beetham Hall
1889	Westmorland Gazette advert sale of cottage garden barn shippon and parrock occupied by Mrs Inman for the estate of the late William Dickinson of Dawson Fold. Also 2 fields Nancy Ridding and Hanah Ridding tenanted by Mathew Walling
1890	Mathew Walling won second prize in a ploughing match at Park House Farm
1891	Census Mathew Walling Farmer aged 50
1900	William Walling farming Dawson Fold . He had married Hanah Trotter daughter of James Trotter South Low farm (his second wife) They had four sons William Mathew James and George
1920s	Sam Strickland planted a three acre orchard mostly apples for Major L S Hoggarth (1914 -18) he had taken over the Dawson Fold estate from his father Arthur
1924	Mathew Walling died aged 83
1930	Arthur Hoggarth died
1941	George Walling married Annie Kitching they had two daughters Nancy and Christine and farmed Dawson Fold in partnership with his brother James
1946	Partnership between George Walling and James dissolved James went to farm Mislet Nr Windermere
1962	26th December Major L S Hoggarth died aged 82
1966	26th April George Walling sold his dairy herd 42 cows
1968	23rd August Combining Barley at Dawson Fold
1971	5th February Annie Walling died aged 60
1970s	George Walling had new bungalow built at Dawson Fold
1971	4th July Isabella Hoggarth aged 72 wife of Major L S Hoggarth died estate valued £17,217 – 37 leaving Dawson Fold Farm to Mrs Barr
1970s	Roy and Eileen Bainbridge occupied the farm house
1970s	Gordon Pitt purchased the New house at Dawson Fold from Mrs Barr for £11000
1975	10th March Nancy Walling died aged 32
1980	George Walling purchased Dawson Fold farm with 85 acres
1981	Spring George Walling had stock sale Beef Cattle and Sheep
1982	Low common allotment (part of Dawson Fold) 8 acres purchased by J H Trotter for £16,000
1985	April 2nd George Walling died aged 74 estate valued £i44,000 George was a pioneer of farm shops selling large quantities of fruit and vegetables mostly Damsons and Potatoes. He was also a successful mangold grower selling truck loads every Spring for sheep feed
1985	Westmorland Gazette Advert for sale by private treaty Dawson Fold farm house for Christine Walling and sons purchased by Mr and Mrs Midgeley
1989	Westmorland Gazette 31st July sale of 26 – 68 acres Part of Dawson Fold farm for Trustees G H Walling deceased purchased by Swinton Insurance for £62,000
2002	19th April above land sold to Mr Carter Black Bull Witherslack
2005	Stephen Walling converted a barn to a dwelling

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