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Swan Hotel, Newby Bridge
Swan Hotel
locality:-   Newby Bridge
civil parish:-   Staveley-in-Cartmel (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   inn
coordinates:-   SD36948637
1Km square:-   SD3686
10Km square:-   SD38

photograph
BJR24.jpg  Innsigns above the door, a swan, but also a bunch of grapes.
(taken 5.8.2005)  
photograph
BJR23.jpg (taken 5.8.2005)  
evidence:-   road book:- Cary 1798 (2nd edn 1802) 
placename:-  Swan
source data:-   Road book, itineraries, Cary's New Itinerary, by John Cary, 181 Strand, London, 2nd edn 1802.
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page 653-654  "INNS, ... Newby Bridge, Swan. ..."
item:-  JandMN : 228.2
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evidence:-   probably descriptive text:- Otley 1823 (5th edn 1834) 
item:-  boat; post horse
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 6:-  "..."
"At Newby Bridge, on the foot of the lake, is a small inn, where boats and post-horses may be had; ..."
evidence:-   old map:- Garnett 1850s-60s H
placename:-  Swan Inn
source data:-   Map of the English Lakes, in Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, 1850s-60s.
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"Swan Inn"
block, building 
item:-  JandMN : 82.1
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evidence:-   old advertisement:- Martineau 1855
placename:-  Swan Hotel
source data:-   Advertisment for T.White at Swan Hotel, Newby Bridge in A Complete Guide to the Lake District of England, by Harriet Martineau published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, 4th edn 1871.
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Advertisment pages, added at the end of the guide. 
item:-  JandMN : 192.5
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evidence:-   old text:- Martineau 1855
source data:-   Guide book, A Complete Guide to the English Lakes, by Harriet Martineau, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, and by Whittaker and Co, London, 1855; published 1855-76.
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Page 18:-  "..."
"The Swan Inn at Newby Bridge is exceedingly comfortable; and the charges are very moderate. The stranger will have to come again, on his way to Furness, at all events, and perhaps in some trip to Hawkshead; or when making the circuit of the lake by land. Now, he merely calls for lunch or tea, during the stopping of the steamer; and then he is off again, up the lake. ..."
evidence:-   old map:- Prior 1874 map 1
placename:-  Swan Inn
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving or lithograph? Winander Mere, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, 1874.
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"Swan Inn"
block; inn 
item:-  private collection : 133.1
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evidence:-   old print:- Heaton Cooper 1905 (edn 1908) 
placename:-  Swan Inn
source data:-   Print, colour halftone, Swan Inn, Newby Bridge, Staveley-in-Cartmel, Lancashire, from a watercolour painting by Alfred Heaton Cooper, published by Adam and Charles Black, London, 2nd edn 1908.
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Opposite p.12 of The English Lakes, painted by Alfred Heaton Cooper, described by William T Palmer. 
printed at tissue opposite the print:-  "SWAN INN, NEWBY BRIDGE, WINDERMERE"
printed at signed lower left:-  "[A HEATON COOPER]"
item:-  JandMN : 468.4
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evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Swan Hotel
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"SWAN HOTEL / / / COLTON / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 421452 / SD3694186388"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Hotel. Late C18 or early C19. Roughcast stone with slate roofs. 3 storeys with attic, 5 bays, with 2-storey wing of 5 bays to left and sympathetically designed C20 wing to right. 1st bay projects under pediment and has 1st floor sill band. Windows have paired sashes, most with glazing bars, but 5 have single glazing bars. 1st bay has large segmental-headed window to 1st and 2nd floors, with small-paned glazing. Gabled dormers have slate hung cheeks and sashed windows with glazing bars; 1st bay has 2 dormers to each return. Entrance between 3rd and 4th bays has C20 porch of plastic Doric columns, frieze and cornice, supporting model of swan. Entrance to left of window to 1st bay has flat canopy on curly brackets, similar canopy over entrance, now window to right of window. 5-bay wing projects to left. Irregularly placed windows are sashed with vertical glazing bars, some to ground-floor segmental headed. Projecting gable-end stack, sashed window with glazing bars to right return. Rear has sashed windows with glazing bars and later extensions. 3 cross-axial stacks and one gable-end stack. Originally a posting house, the hotel has group value with Newby Bridge (q.v.)."
evidence:-   old print:- Garnett 1850s-60s F
source data:-   Print, uncoloured engraving, Newby Bridge, Lancashire, engraved by William Banks and Son, Edinburgh, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, 1850s-60s?
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Found with Views of the English Lakes. 
The view is from the south showing the River Leven, and the bottom of Windermere, as well as the bridge and Swan Hotel. 
printed at bottom:-  "W. Banks &Son, Edinr. / NEWBY BRIDGE."
item:-  JandMN : 165.13
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evidence:-   old advertisement:- Atkinson 1847 (5th edn 1850) 
placename:-  Swan Hotel
item:-  swan
source data:-   Advertisement for T White at the Swan Hotel, Newby Bridge, Lancashire, 1850.
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At the end of a Handbook to the English Lakes, 5th edn. 
item:-  Armitt Library : A1144.17
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