Holmrook

Holmrook
Cottages by the A595 at Holmrook
Holmrook Holmrook shown within Cumbria
OS grid reference	SD077995
Civil parish	Drigg and Carleton
	Irton with Santon
District	Copeland
Shire county	Cumbria
Region	North West
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	HOLMROOK
Postcode district	CA19
Dialling code	019467
Police	Cumbria
Fire	Cumbria
Ambulance	North West
EU Parliament	North West England
UK Parliament	Copeland
List of places UK England Cumbria

Coordinates: 54°22′59″N 3°25′12″W / 54.383°N 3.420°W / 54.383; -3.420

Holmrook is a linear village in the English county of Cumbria. It lies along the A595 road on the west banks of the River Irt. The B5344 road connects it to Drigg, with its railway station less than two miles to the west.

Irton Hall

Two miles north-east along the Irt valley is Irton Hall, a large mostly 19th-century house which incorporates a 14th-century pele tower.^[1]

Holmrook Hall

Holmrook Hall was a Victorian country house, at one time owned by the Reverend Charles Skeffington Lutwidge. His relative Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known as the author, mathematician and photographer Lewis Carroll, used to come and stay occasionally.^[2]

During World War II, Holmrook Hall was requisitioned by the Admiralty on behalf of the Royal Navy, with locals told that it was a rest home for shipwrecked and distressed sailors. In actually fact, strategically located between ROF Drigg and ROF Sellafield, it was the Royal Navy bomb and munitions training school between 1943 and 1946, under the title HMS Volcano. Defined as a Top Secret site, it trained both Royal Navy personnel, the Special Boat Service and Norwegian expatriates in the war time use of explosives and demolition. Among the graduates of HMS Volcano were:^[3]

Noel Cashford MBE
Lionel "Buster" Crabb OBE

Post war, the hall fell into disrepair, and was demolished. Only the stable block remains, converted to housing.

References

↑ Irton Hall at Pastscape
↑ "Holmrook Hall". Shelia Cartwright. Retrieved 2011-01-01.
↑ "Holmrook Hall". wartimememories.co.uk. Retrieved 2011-01-01.

External links

Media related to Holmrook at Wikimedia Commons

Map sources for Holmrook

Current and historic Royal Navy air stations, bases, depots, dockyards, facilities, installations, shore establishments & training units

Current home	HM Dockyard Rosyth HMRMB Chivenor HMNB Clyde HMS Dalriada HMNB Devonport HMNB Portsmouth HMRMC Norton Manor RNAD Coulport RNAS Culdrose RNAS Yeovilton HMS Forward (1984) HMS King Alfred (1994) HMS President HMS Raleigh HMS Scotia RM Condor RM Poole

Former home	HMS Abastor HMS Aggressive HMS Badger HMS Calliope HMS Daedalus II HM Dockyard Brunswick HM Dockyard Chatham HM Dockyard Deptford * HM Dockyard Deptford Wharf HM Dockyard Frindsbury HM Dockyard Harwich HM Dockyard Pembroke HM Dockyard Portland HMS Ferret HMS Forest Moor HM Fort Roughs HMS Forward (1939) HMS Flycatcher HMS Ganges HM Holmrook Hall HMS Imperieuse HMS Lochinvar HMS King Alfred (1939) HM the Kings Yard HM Ordnance Yard Haulbowline HMNB Scapa Flow HMS Newt HMRMB Stonehouse HMS Royal Arthur HMS Standard HMS St Christopher HMS St Vincent Port HHZ RM Turnchapel RNAS Hatston HM Visculating Yard Royal William HM Dockyard Woolwich

Former historic	Grand River Naval Depot HM Naval Yard Penetanguishene HM Naval Shipyards York HMRND Amherstburg HMD Bermuda HM Dockyard Antigua HM Dockyard Bombay HM Dockyard Gibraltar HM Dockyard Madras HM Dockyard Port Mahon HM Dockyard Port Royal HM Dockyard Trincomalee HM Naval Base Aden HM Naval Base Colombo HM Naval Base Cochin HM Naval Base Singapore HM Naval Base Simon's Town HM Naval Base Weihaiwei HM Naval Yard Garden Island HMRND Esquimalt HMRNB Georgetown HMRND Kingston HM Dockyard Malta HMRNZNB Devonport HMRNB Halifax HMS Tamar Nelson's Dockyard

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