Old Cumbria Gazetteer

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	Woolpack Inn, Eskdale
	Woolpack Inn
locality:-	Dawson Ground
civil parish:-	Eskdale (formerly Cumberland)
county:-	Cumbria
locality type:-	inn
coordinates:-	NY19030100
1Km square:-	NY1901
10Km square:-	NY10
	BNJ52.jpg (taken 14.3.2007)   BNJ51.jpg (taken 14.3.2007)
evidence:-	old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 79 15)  placename:-  Dawson Ground placename:-  Woolpack Inn
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. "Dawson Ground (Woolpack Inn)"
evidence:-	old map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd)  placename:-  Dawson Ground
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. D4NY10SE.jpg "Dawson Ground" block or blocks, labelled in lowercase; a hamlet or just a house  item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 2 Image © Carlisle Library
evidence:-	descriptive text:- Otley 1823 (5th edn 1834)  placename:-  Wool Pack
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.   goto source Page 108:-  "... about a mile and a half down the valley is a public-house, formerly the sign of the Wool Pack, about 15 miles from Ambleside."
	BNJ53.jpg (taken 14.3.2007)   BRK56.jpg  New designer innsign. (taken 14.9.2009)   BRK57.jpg  New designer sign over the entrance to the bar.. (taken 14.9.2009)   CDE96.jpg (taken 4.6.2015)

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