It was built in the early English style at a cost of £603 to the designs of William Railton.
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They tortured her to force her to reveal where the family valuables were hidden and, when she would not tell them, beheaded her in the attic, dragged her body downstairs and dumped it off one of the "Roman Bridges" (a pair of medieval packhorse bridges on the River Gowy, still standing today at the end of Platts Lane in Hockenhull).
Wasdale, Eskdale and Duddon | River Duddon | Duddon Valley |
Much wildlife is found on the Duddon Estuary, perhaps most notably 20% of the national Natterjack toad population, who are attracted to the shallow breeding pools.
Wordsworth called him "Wonderful Walker", and made reference to him in his Duddon Sonnets and in the poem The Excursion.