Ireby Grange High Ireby Cumbria

Ireby Grange at High Ireby, 1 mile to the south from the village of Ireby, in the civil parish of Ireby and Uldale, in Cumbria, England. The mid-19th-century Ireby Grange was destroyed by fire in 1957. The house and estate was acquired in 1841 by Henry Granger, a London merchant, who in 1870 sold it to John Boustead. By 1906 it was transferred to James Gurney, and by the 1930s was largely unfurnished, and run-down when Hugh Walpole visited and decided to set the house as The Fortress, one of the four stories in his The Herries Chronicles novels. The glass plate photographer was Henry Mayson, who was born in Keswick and who set up a photographic studio there in the 1880s, producing postcards under the 'Mayson Series'. His work concerned the landscape and people of the Lake District. The geog-location is the approximate position of the house.