button to main menu  Old Cumbria Gazetteer
Ouse Bridge Inn, Ouse Bridge
Ouse Bridge Inn
locality:-   Ouse Bridge
civil parish:-   Blindcrake (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   inn
coordinates:-   NY19963216 (roughly) 
1Km square:-   NY1932
10Km square:-   NY13
SummaryText:-   No sign of these buildings here anymore?
evidence:-   descriptive text:- West 1778 (11th edn 1821) 
source data:-   Guide book, A Guide to the Lakes, by Thomas West, published by William Pennington, Kendal, Cumbria once Westmorland, and in London, 1778 to 1821.
image WS21P209, button  goto source
Addendum; Mr Gray's Journal, 1769 
Page 209:-  "... The sky was overcast, and the wind cool; so after dining at a public-house, which stands here near the bridge, that crosses the Derwent just where it issues from the lake, and sauntering a little by the water side, I came home again."
evidence:-   old map:- Crosthwaite 1783-94 (Bas) 
placename:-  Ouse Bridge Inn
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, An Accurate Map of Broadwater or Bassenthwaite Lake, scale about 3 inches to 1 mile, by Peter Crosthwaite, Keswick, Cumberland, 1783, version published 1800.
image
CT6NY23B.jpg
"Ouse Bridge Inn / Sir F. F. Vane's Bart. / and a very excellent Station"
item:-  Armitt Library : 1959.191.4
Image © see bottom of page
evidence:-   old map:- Crosthwaite 1783-94 (Bas) 
placename:-  Ousebridge Inn
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, An Accurate Map of Broadwater or Bassenthwaite Lake, scale about 3 inches to 1 mile, by Peter Crosthwaite, Keswick, Cumberland, 1783, version published 1800.
image
CT06Vgn3.jpg
"Ousebridge Inn (Sir F. F. Vane's Bart.) Situate at the N. End of the Lake &Commands an Excellent Prospect."
item:-  Armitt Library : 1959.191.4
Image © see bottom of page
evidence:-   old text:- Clarke 1787
source data:-   Guide book, A Survey of the Lakes of Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire, written and published by James Clarke, Penrith, Cumberland, and in London etc, 1787; published 1787-93.
image CL13P093, button  goto source
Page 93:-  "..."
"... Then arrive at Ouzebridge, ... a very good and commodious inn, where we will dine."
"..."
image CL13P094, button  goto source
Page 94:-  "..."
"The inn at Ouzebridge is a convenient place to call at, and is pleasantly situated on the edge of the Lake: It is a very good new building, erected purposely for the convenience of travellers by the late Mr Spedding of Armathwaite; there is a very good dining-room and parlour, with a bow-window, which has a pretty look out, and very good stables, but hath been unfortunate in its tenants, (changing them often.) Here used to be held several meetings every year of the Justices of the Peace, for their private sessions; also county-courts, &c. Here also was held the first regatta in 1780,"
evidence:-   old map:- Clarke 1787 map (Bassenthwaite Lake) 
source data:-   Map, A Map of Broadwater and its Environs, ie Bassenthwaite Lake, scale about 6.5 ins to 1 mile, by James Clarke, engraved by Neele, 352 Strand, published by James Clarke, Penrith, Cumberland and in London etc, 1787.
image
CL8NY23B.jpg
item:-  private collection : 10.8
Image © see bottom of page
button to lakes menu  Lakes Guides menu.