Millerhill, Waterhead

Has been described as a Rejected Pele Tower, and also as a Rejected Bastle

There are no visible remains

NameMillerhill, Waterhead
Alternative NamesMiller Hill; Millnerhill, Millernhill
Historic CountryCumberland
Modern AuthorityCumbria
1974 AuthorityCumbria
Civil ParishWaterhead

Possible towerhouse.

'Service by the vicar of Lanercost in the farmhouse at Miller Hill...was originally a pele tower.' ( Carlisle Journal ).

1603 Survey; 'Thos Hitherton.. 2 tenements now laid together called the Millerhill'.

Source of story in newspaper not known. (Perriam and Robinson)

According to a newspaper article of 1915, the farmhouse at Miller Hill was a pele tower. Millernhill is documented in 1603 but no mention is made of a fortified house. (PastScape ref. Perriam and Robinson)

Gatehouse Comments

Not a gentry status site so can not have been a pele tower. It is recorded as a tenement as Millerhill in the 1603 Survey but not called a 'stonehouse' although it is possible in this area it was a pele-house type bastle although that is doubtful on the available evidence.

- Philip Davis

Not scheduled

Not Listed

Historic England (PastScape) Defra or Monument number(s)
County Historic Environment Record
OS Map Grid ReferenceNY590664
Latitude54.9898986816406
Longitude-2.64135003089905
Eastings359000
Northings566400
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Books

  • Perriam, Denis and Robinson, John, 1998, The Medieval Fortified Buildings of Cumbria (Kendal: CWAAS Extra Series 29) p. 164

Journals

  • 1915 Jan 19, Carlisle Journal

Primary Sources

  • Graham, T. H. B. (ed.). 1934, The barony of Gilsland. Lord William Howard's survey, taken in 1603 (Feild-Booke yt explaines all the Map Booke for Gilsland taken in 1603) (Kendal: CWAAS Extra Series 16)