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White Lion, Patterdale
Patterdale
locality:-   Patterdale
civil parish:-   Patterdale (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   inn
coordinates:-   NY39661585
1Km square:-   NY3915
10Km square:-   NY31


photograph
BLK70.jpg (taken 5.12.2005)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 12 11) 
placename:-  White Lion 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.

hearsay:-  
Edward Elgar and his wife Alice, stayed here 1916. It is said that he wrote a score celebrating the scenery, but this score is not extant.

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