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All Saints Rooms, Cockermouth
All Saints Rooms
locality:-   Cockermouth
civil parish:-   Cockermouth (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   village hall (church hall) 
locality type:-   school (site) 
coordinates:-   NY12403061
1Km square:-   NY1230
10Km square:-   NY13


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BSI09.jpg (taken 19.3.2010)  
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BOQ47.jpg  Plaque:-
"ON THIS SITE STOOD / THE GRAMMAR SCHOOL WHICH / WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, POET LAUREATE, / ATTENDED AS A BOY. / TO THIS SCHOOL ALSO CAME / FLETCHER CHRISTIAN, / LEADER OF THE MUTINY OF THE BOUNTY / APRIL 28TH 1788." (taken 13.2.2008)  

evidence:-   old map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd) 
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, 3x2 sheets, The County of Cumberland, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, by Thomas Donald, engraved and published by Joseph Hodskinson, 29 Arundel Street, Strand, London, 1774.
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D41230H.jpg
"Free School"
building in churchyard 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library

evidence:-   perhaps old text:- Farington 1816
source data:-   Descriptive text:-  "..."
"The free-school at Cockermouth was founded in the reign of Charles II. by Philip, Lord Wharton, Sir Richard Graham, and others. The sum of ten pounds per annum is paid to the master by Lord Lonsdale, as charged upon the great tithes, and a further sum of ten pounds has for some years been added as a gratuity. Over the school-house is a library, founded by the associates of the late Dr. Bray, to which Dr. Keene, Bishop of Chester, was a considerable benefactor."
item:-  Armitt Library : A6666.23
Image © see bottom of page


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BOQ46.jpg (taken 13.2.2008)  

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