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Commercial, Kendal
Commercial
Royal Oak
Kendal Hotel
locality:-   Kendal
civil parish:-   Kendal (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   inn
coordinates:-   SD51509269 (about) 
1Km square:-   SD5192
10Km square:-   SD59
references:-   Otley 1823

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 38 8) 
placename:-  Commercial 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.

evidence:-   descriptive text:- Otley 1823 (5th edn 1834) 
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.
image OT01P098, button  goto source
Page 98:-  "KENDAL"
"... The King's Arms and Commercial are the principal Inns."


Currington, David: 2009: Pictorial Record of Public Houses in Kendal: Westmorland CAMRA

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