Hoskins and Higham
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Article by Brian Anderson, June 2014. "I wonder how many readers have visited Higham, which, according to famous architectural historian and writer, Nikolas Pevsner, is a “rarity in the county”, a “Georgian proportioned mansion in the Gothic style”. Some might know it as Higham Hall from past decades when it was a girls’ school, a youth hostel, a local authority education college, and now an independent residential adult education college. This is the story of Thomas Alison Hoskins (1800-1886) and Higham, the lakeside family seat he built near Setmurthy, overlooking Bassenthwaite Lake, Ullock Pike and Skiddaw. The Hoskins family originally settled in Cumberland in 1748 from Herefordshire, when Hoskins’ grandfather, Alexander, moved into the village of Great Broughton. Hoskins’ father...." -
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