10/16/2023 0 Comments Forestry prison architect![]() In approximately 1745 Richard Ford built a new home in Grizedale known as Ford Lodge situated 250 yards east of the old hall. ![]() ![]() In the 1800s the old hall was demolished and a new farm house was built on its site which exists today under the name Grizedale Home Farm. In the mid-eighteenth century Richard Ford came into possession of part of the Grizedale estate, though probably not of the hall itself, which by that time had become a farmhouse, known as the Grizedale Hall Farm. The Grizedale estate had been acquired by the Rawlinson family in 1614 who kept it for some generations and it is assumed that the old Grizedale Hall had been built around that time.
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