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| George Hotel, Keswick | ||
| George Hotel | ||
| George and Dragon | ||
| Street:- | St John's Street | |
| locality:- | Keswick | |
| civil parish:- | Keswick (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | inn | |
| coordinates:- | NY26712337 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY2623 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY22 | |
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 BMR02.jpg Innsign, King George. (taken 15.9.2006)  BMR01.jpg (taken 17.9.2006) |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 64 6) placename:- George Hotel |
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| 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. |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:- George Hotel |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "GEORGE HOTEL / / ST JOHN'S STREET / KESWICK / ALLERDALE / CUMBRIA / II / 71796 / NY2671723380" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "2 Said to be the oldest inn in Keswick originally C16, now late Georgian in appearance. Scored stucco, quoins, 3 storeys. Flush-panelled door, pilastered doorcase, round arched fanlight with Gothic glazing bars. 2 windows on ground floor, and 3 sash windows each upper floor in plain stone architraves. An additional portion to the right is similar but with a plain doorway and an extra bay on the right hand end." |
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 BMR03.jpg Plaque beside the door:- "GEORGE HOTEL THIS HOTEL IS THE OLDEST INN IN KESWICK IT WAS ORIGINALLY THE GEORGE AND DRAGON BUT THE NAME DRAGON WAS DROPPED ON THE ACCESSION OF KING GEORGE I. HERE GERMAN MINERS OF LEAD AND SILVER WHOSE SMELTING HOUSE WAS AT THE FORGE, PAID THEIR DUES TO THE OFFICERS OF QUEEN ELIZABETH I. AND HERE ALSO MANY UNSCRUPULOUS TRADERS THE PLUMBAGO ORE STOLEN FROM THE MINES IN BORROWDALE." "IT WAS HERE THAT THE EARL OF DERWENTWATER CALLED, THE LAST TIME HE WAS IN KESWICK TO QUAFF A TANKARD OF ALE FROM THE SADDLE, AFTER WHICH HE RODE OF TO JOIN IN THE 1715 REBELLION, WHICH ENDED IN HIS DEATH ON THE SCAFFOLD ON TOWER HILL LONDON." (taken 15.9.2006)  BMR04.jpg Doorway, notice the grapes. (taken 15.9.2006) |
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| hearsay:- |
16th century inn, called the Bunch of Grapes, where illicit black lead was traded. |
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| During the period of Elizabeth I and James I it was a revenue office for the dues
from the german silver miners. |
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