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Distressed Sailor, Hensingham
Distressed Sailor
Street:-   Egremont Road
locality:-   Hensingham
locality:-   Whitehaven
civil parish:-   Whitehaven (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   inn
coordinates:-   NX98581623
1Km square:-   NX9816
10Km square:-   NX91


photograph
BNC86.jpg  Innsign, sailors in a storm.
(taken 2.1.2007)  
photograph
BNC85.jpg (taken 2.1.2007)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 67 6) 
placename:-  Distressed Sailor
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 map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd) 
placename:-  Distrest Sailor
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, 3x2 sheets, The County of Cumberland, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, by Thomas Donald, engraved and published by Joseph Hodskinson, 29 Arundel Street, Strand, London, 1774.
image
D4NX91NE.jpg
"Distrest Sailor"
inn 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Distressed Sailor
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"THE DISTRESSED SAILOR / / EGREMONT ROAD / WHITEHAVEN / COPELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 75935 / NX9858816259"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Circa 1790. Scored stucco, slate roof, doorway with curved hood of local type, 3 sash windows on ground floor and 4 above. Projecting portion to right (South) has a sash window up and 2 down."

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