Bailrigg

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Bailrigg was a hamlet in the township of Scotforth and in some early deeds it was described as a manor. Its 2,880 acres were owned by Count Roger Pictavensis and his family, and afterwards the title fell to Cockersand Abbey. The settlement gave its name to a local family, Roger de Bailrigg and his descendants. In 1469 the land was granted to John Gardiner, who endowed Lancaster Royal Grammar School, and it went through numerous owners subsequently. In 1887 it was purchased by Thomas Storey, who founded the Storey Institute. He died in 1898 and the estate passed to his son Herbert Storey.{{Cite book|last=McClintock|first=Marion E.|title=The University of Lancaster: Quest for Innovation|publisher=University of Lancaster|year=1974|location=Lancaster|pages=2}}

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Herbert Storey had Bailrigg House, also known as Bailrigg Mansion, built between 1899 and 1902 by Woolfall and Eccles of Liverpool. The landscape around Bailrigg House was also reoriented, and additional aspects added, with some of the work done by landscape architect Thomas Hayton Mawson.{{Cite web|title=The Storey Family and Thomas Mawson|url=https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/unihistory/origins/newowners.html|access-date=10 July 2020|website=Lancaster University}}{{Cite web|title=BAILRIGG HOUSE, Lancaster - 1391378 {{!}} Historic England|url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1391378|access-date=2021-03-27|website=historicengland.org.uk|language=en}} In 1921, Storey moved to Wiltshire, and the estate was bought by James Travis-Clegg, who lived there until he died in 1942. In 1944, the estate was bought by Barton Townley, a local car dealer.{{Cite news|date=December 2012|title=Heritage Open Days|work=Lancaster Civic Society Newsletter|issue=111|url=https://lancastercivicsociety.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/newsletter-111-december-2012-pdf.pdf|access-date=10 July 2020}}{{Cite web|title=Barton Townley Ltd|url=https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/unihistory/growth/barton-townley|access-date=10 July 2020|website=Lancaster University}} He agreed to sell the estate to the City of Lancaster for £50,000 in 1961, and eventually did so in 1963, in order to make way for the new University of Lancaster.McClintock, p. 13–5

The new university buildings were designed by Gabriel Epstein and Peter Shepheard.{{Cite news|last=Fulcher|first=Merlin|date=8 April 2014|title=Contest opens for Lancaster University overhaul|work=Architects' Journal|url=https://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/competitions/contest-opens-for-lancaster-university-overhaul/8661218.article|access-date=16 July 2020}}

In January 2017, Bailrigg was chosen by the government as the site of a new garden village, with up to 5,000 new homes.[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38486907 Garden villages: Locations of first 14 announced], BBC News, 2 January. 2017 Work on this was suspended in 2023 while a revised Local Plan is prepared by Lancaster City Council.{{cite web | url=https://www.lancaster.gov.uk/planning/planning-policy/about-local-plan | title=Local Plan, Planning Library & Strategies }}

File:Bailrigg house.JPG|Bailrigg House

File:Bailrigg house garden2.JPG|Bailrigg House Gardens

File:Bailrigg house garden1.JPG|Bailrigg House Gardens

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