Historic houses · North East England
Gilsland Spa
Gilsland Spa in England North East, United Kingdom.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–2 h
- Family-friendly
- Limited wheelchair access
About
Gilsland Spa is a place of interest in England North East, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.
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From the Wikipedia article
Gilsland Spa is the name of a former hotel at Gilsland, Cumbria, England. It is named from the sulphurous spring which issues from a cliff below the hotel. The hotel had recently been renamed Gilsland Hall Hotel however it has been empty and disused since 2021. The hotel sits around 175m above sea level in a meander of the River Irthing and has commanding views out over Gilsland and part of the Irthing valley. In addition to the main building there are outbuildings to the immediate northeast, a set of small cottages and ancillary buildings. To the west there are further outbuildings comprising maintenance buildings, garages, greenhouses and a summer house. Also to the west is Spa Villa, a large self-contained property that is Grade II listed (entry number 1087517). Spa Villa was built in 1815 by Major George Stephenson Mounsey as a summer residence for the hotel, of which he was then the proprietor.
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Background
History
The original hotel was called The Shaws, from an Old English word meaning a small woodland, and was built in the 1760s, although the site and its surrounding farmland have been known by this name since at least 1603. Lord William Howard's map of the Barony of Gilsland of this date shows two buildings near the site of the hotel labelled "Two tenements called the Shaws". Very little is known about the first hotel but one contemporary drawing suggests that it may have had a tower in imitation of the type of fortified house known locally as a peel. This original Shaws Hotel burned down spectacularly in 1859, and was replaced on a grander scale soon afterwards by G. G. Mounsey, a local landowner…
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- Coordinates
- 55.0024, -2.5707
- District
- Cumberland
- Parish
- Waterhead
- Postcode
- CA8 7AW
- Parliamentary constituency
- Carlisle
Sources
- wikidata: Q5562597 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Gilsland Spa (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Gilsland Spa?
- Gilsland Spa is in North-East England, United Kingdom (postcode CA8 7AW), in the parish of Waterhead.
- Who owns Gilsland Spa?
- Gilsland Spa is owned by Clear Summer Hospitality Ltd.
- How do I get to Gilsland Spa?
- Drivers can navigate to postcode CA8 7AW. It sits within the Carlisle parliamentary constituency.