Lamonby

The name "Lambenemy" is recorded for the hamlet in 1257.^[3] Limestone was quarried at Lamonby in earlier centuries.^[4] A topographical dictionary of 1808 records 43 houses and 244 inhabitants.^[5]

Lamonby Hall, a Grade II listed building, is described as late 16th- or early 17th-century with 20th-century alterations. It is built of large blocks of sandstone rubble with cement rendering and a greenslate roof with banded sandstone chimney stacks. After the Reformation, the hall is said to have included a Roman Catholic chapel. In the reign of Elizabeth, a certain Juliana Buckle of Yorkshire bought the hall on account of the chapel and kept a priest there for as long as it remained safe to do so.^[6] The chapel appears to be the origin of a piece of floral carving used in the large, segmental-arched main fireplace.^[7]

"Lammonby" on 28 January 1845 was the scene of a notoriously brutal infanticide by a drunken mother. According to The Times of a few days later, "On Tuesday evening, the 28th ult., [the mother] made up a large fire in the kitchen of her own house, with the determination of sacrificing her child in the flames.... She stripped off all the child's clothes and hid them in a hole behind the inner door of the ashmidden, and having done so took the child by its legs and arms and literally roasted it to death."^[8]

A planning application for a wind farm of five 100-metre turbines at Lamonby was submitted in 2005 by a power company, E.ON UK. The application was withdrawn in March 2009, after 700 letters of objection had been received.^[9]

• Listed buildings in Skelton, Cumbria

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