Gilsland Timeline
Most of the references in the SOURCE column can be found in full in the Gilsland Bibliography
| YEAR | EVENT | SOURCE |
|---|---|---|
| c330 mya | (mya = million years ago) Deposition of the Upper Border Group of Lower Carboniferous Viséan sandstones and limestones underlying Gilsland. | Day, 1970 |
| c122 | Hadrian's Wall completed | |
| 1603 | Orchard House and Shaws estates recorded | Lord William Howard's Survey |
| 1608 | Sale of Shaws estate Jenkin Carrok to Edmund Carrok | Conveyance, Carlisle Rec.Off. |
| 1610 | Over Hall shown on the site of Wardrew House | Speed's Map of Northd. |
| 1641-53 | English Civil War | |
| c1653 | Record of a building on the site of Orchard House | Bird, 1913 |
| 1688 | Reference to Mumps Hall in a legal document. (Dinmont House also assigned to the late c17) | Transcript |
| c1740 | First Shaws Hotel built | Mounsey, 1865 |
| 1745 | Last Jacobite Incursion, Carlisle occupied | Mounsey, 1846 |
| 1752 | Wardrew House built | Pevsner |
| 1763 | Shaws Estate sold by auction | Newspaper advertisement |
| 1777 | Death of Margaret Teasdale | Tombstone |
| 1787 | June - Robert Burns' visit to Gilsland | Bird, 1913 |
| 1797 | Scott's first visit and courtship of Miss Carpenter | Lockhart, 1842 |
| 1804 | Scott's second visit to Gilsland (according to The Scotsman) | Scotsman, 23.Jan.1904, p12 |
| 1805 | Scott's second visit to Gilsland (according to Lockhart & other biographers) | Sutherland, 1995 |
| 1815 | Spa Villa built by Major Mounsey | Bird, 1913 |
| 1815 | June - Tax on visitors for upkeep of the Home Walks (Bell, prop.) | The Carlisle Patriot, 1815 |
| 1832 | Death of Scott | Lockhart, 1842 |
| 1836 | Beauties of Gilsland (book published to co-incide with the opening of the railway) | Steele, 1836 |
| 1838 | Opening of Rosehill Railway Station | Lamb, 2001 |
| 1841 | Derogatory review of Shaws Hotel | Granville, 1841 |
| 1842 | June - John Hudspeth (prop.) Shaw's (sic) Hotel, "last season he will be a tenant" | The Scotsman, 22.6.1842 |
| 1851 | First reference to the Popping Stone in print | W. Collingwood Bruce, 1851 |
| 1854 | 3rd Oct. - St Mary Magdalene Church consecrated | Bird, 1913 |
| 1859 | 27th Aug. - Shaws Hotel burnt down | Lamb, 2001 |
| 1861 | First mention of the Popping Stone by name in print | Carlisle Patriot, October 1861 |
| c1865 | Publication of Gillesland | Mounsey, [1865] |
| 1869 | Rosehill Station renamed Gilsland | Lamb, 2001 | 1869 | Gilsland Methodist Church built | Bird, 1913 |
| 1870 | Rebuilding of St Cuthbert's, Nether Denton | Chipchase, 2007 |
| c1871 | Latest dated image showing the old shape of the Popping Stone | Lockhart, 1871 |
| 1872 | Scott Centenary - country-wide celebrations | e.g. Hunnewell, 1871 |
| 1874 | 23rd January - Death of G G Mounsey | |
| 1875 | Popping Stone "half its original size" | Jenkinson, 1875 |
| 1876 | 27 June - Newspaper advert: "Shaws Hotel now thoroughly finished" (Gelderd, prop.) | The Scotsman |
| c1880 | Earliest photo I have yet found of the "new shape" Popping Stone | Postcard |
| 1883 | Temperance Festival in Gilsland | Hexham Courant |
| 1901 | Gilsland Spa Hotel established as a Co-op convalescent home | Lamb, 2001 |
| 1901 | Organ installed in St Mary Magdalene | Bird, 1913 |
| 1905 | 1st July - Popping Stone bridge opened | Bird, 1913 |
| 1960 | Green Grove Cottages demolished | Lamb, 2001 |
| 1967 | Gilsland Station closed | Pevsner |
| 1992 | End of History | Fukuyama, 1992 |