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Globe Hotel, Cockermouth
Globe Hotel
Street:-   Main Street
locality:-   Cockermouth
civil parish:-   Cockermouth (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   inn
coordinates:-   NY12123069
1Km square:-   NY1230
10Km square:-   NY13

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BMA43.jpg  A rather boring innsign, the graphic artist at work.
(taken 3.5.2006)  
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evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 54 4) 
placename:-  Globe Hotel
source data:-   Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25 inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948.
evidence:-   old text:- Gents Mag
item:-  Sessions Court; hare
source data:-   Magazine, The Gentleman's Magazine or Monthly Intelligencer or Historical Chronicle, published by Edward Cave under the pseudonym Sylvanus Urban, and by other publishers, London, monthly from 1731 to 1922.
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Gentleman's Magazine 1790 p.172  "... ..."
"On the 18th of January, while the sessions was holding at Cockermouth, a hare which had escaped her pursuers made the best of her way over Derwent Bridge, streight up the street, where, meeting with some interruption, she darted through the window into the room of the Globe-inn, where the clerk of the peace was surrounded by a crowd of his fraternity; and placing herself upon the table, among the papers and law-processes of office, squatted, without apprehending the danger of the company she was in. As soon as the consternation was over which had taken place on that occasion, poor Puss was instantly seized, and without judge or or jury inhumanly put to death, though no other crime was alleged against her except that of forcible entry. She was then committed to the custody of the cook, who roasted her without mercy; and, strange to tell! she was afterwards eaten in this Christian country, by the canibals who had butchered her, with savage triumph, and without remorse!"
"... ..."
evidence:-   road book:- Cary 1798 (2nd edn 1802) 
placename:-  Globe
source data:-   Road book, itineraries, Cary's New Itinerary, by John Cary, 181 Strand, London, 2nd edn 1802.
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page 317-318  "INNS. ... Cockermouth, Globe, Sun. ..."
item:-  JandMN : 228.1
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evidence:-   road book:- Cary 1798 (2nd edn 1802) 
placename:-  Globe
source data:-   Road book, itineraries, Cary's New Itinerary, by John Cary, 181 Strand, London, 2nd edn 1802.
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page 557-558  "INNS. ... Cockermouth, Globe, Sun. ..."
item:-  JandMN : 228.2
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evidence:-   descriptive text:- Otley 1823 (5th edn 1834) 
placename:-  Globe, The
source data:-   Guide book, A Concise Description of the English Lakes, the mountains in their vicinity, and the roads by which they may be visited, with remarks on the mineralogy and geology of the district, by Jonathan Otley, published by the author, Keswick, Cumberland now Cumbria, by J Richardson, London, and by Arthur Foster, Kirkby Lonsdale, Cumbria, 1823; published 1823-49, latterly as the Descriptive Guide to the English Lakes.
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Page 137:-  "... the Globe is an inn furnished with every requisite accommodation for travellers."
evidence:-   descriptive text:- Ford 1839 (3rd edn 1843) 
placename:-  Globe Inn
source data:-   Guide book, A Description of Scenery in the Lake District, by Rev William Ford, published by Charles Thurnam, Carlisle, by W Edwards, 12 Ave Maria Lane, Charles Tilt, Fleet Street, William Smith, 113 Fleet Street, London, by Currie and Bowman, Newcastle, by Bancks and Co, Manchester, by Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh, and by Sinclair, Dumfries, 1839.
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Page 84:-  "[Cockermouth] ... The Globe is the chief inn, and is most respectably conducted. The Sun and the Apple Tree inns may be mentioned."
evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Globe Hotel
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"GLOBE HOTEL / / MAIN STREET / COCKERMOUTH / ALLERDALE / CUMBRIA / II / 71718 / NY1213430688"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Late C18 and C19. 3 storeys. Roughcast, with quoins, and eaves cornice on iron brackets. Centre doorway with stumpy columns, round arch etc in heavy Victorian doorpiece. 3 sash windows on each side and 7 on each upper floor (those on the left are on lower level). R L Stevenson stayed here in 1871. John Dalton stayed here frequently. All the listed buildings on the South Side of Main Street form a group."

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BMA45.jpg  Stained glass over the door.
(taken 3.5.2006)  
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BMA44.jpg  Plaque:-
"R. L. STEVENSON, POTE AND NOVELIST, STAYED AT THIS HOTEL ON HIS VISIT TO COCKERMOUTH IN 1871." "ALSO JOHN DALTON, 1766-1844, DISCOVERER OF THE ATOMIC THEORY, MADE THIS HOTEL HIS HABITAT DURING HIS FREQUENT VISITS TO COCKERMOUTH." (taken 3.5.2006)  
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