Summergill
Summergill – house, formerly a barn.
This barn, known as Vicarage Barn, was once part of Church End Farm (owned by the Rycroft family). It has been converted to a house. A wall was built to divide it from a small plot which is church property. The lawn was part of the Vicarage kitchen garden. That piece of land was bought from the Church in the early 1980s. There are original Dove/Pigeon holes on the south gable. It is the home of long-time Malhamdale residents John and Shirley Rycroft
The church made it a condition of the sale that the purchased land (now part of the house curtilage) should never have any name which would connect it with the Church or Vicarage hence the change of name. Summergill syke runs down a pasture to the west, so Summergill seemed to be appropriate.
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