In King John’s time, the manor of Crofton was the property of Sir Gilbert, son of Sir Gilbert de Dundraw, from whom it passed, by marriage, to Crofton, the father of Sir John Crofton, whose daughter transferred all their family estates to her husband, Isold Brisco.
For several centuries the estate, which extended to 3000 acres was the ancestral home of the Brisco family.
Mannix and Whellan’s History, Gazetteer and Directory of Cumberland, published in 1847 says of the Crofton estate:-
“The deer park contains between 140 and 150 acres, enclosed with a wall near eight feet in height”that” in the park is a fish pond of twelve acres, stored with Carp and Tench.”
The Estate fell on hard times in the 1920’s and was taken over by the Ministry of Agriculture. The Estate was eventually broken up with the great house being demolished in the 1950s. The County Council bought the remains from the Ministry of Agriculture in 1974.
Thankfully Cumbria County Council leased part of what remained of the Estate to the Crofton Trust, a private Charity with an educational remit. This included the one-time estate manager`s house and offices, a 2 acre walled garden, 20 acres deciduous woodland, 6.5 acres of agricultural land, a Georgian style stable block, and of course the magnificent Crofton Lake.
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