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Lawson Park
 Lawson Park is a remote English Lake District hillfarm, leased by Grizedale Arts (a contemporary art commissioner) from Forestry England. It is situated opposite the village of Coniston overlooking Coniston Water, behind Brantwood. A major RIBA Award-winning refurbishment by architects Sutherland Hussey in 2007/8/9 saw the farm transformed into an artists' residency and office base for Grizedale Arts. It now offers live/work residencies to contemporary artists and hosts volunteers, events and conferences periodically.[1]
HistoryThe farm was first recorded under the ownership of the Cistercian Furness Abbey (Barrow-in-Furness) in the 13th century, when it was used as a base for charcoal-burning. After deforestation of the surrounding land in the late medieval period, the farm was used by a succession of tenant sheep-farmers. In the late 19th century Victorian polymath John Ruskin - who lived in nearby Brantwood - purchased the farmhouse and land. After Ruskin's death the farm was tenanted by various families until the Taylforth family ended farming in the 1950s. The buildings were used as a student hostel until the late 1980s. References
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