button to main menu  Old Cumbria Gazetteer
Royal Hotel, Dockray
Royal Hotel
locality:-   Dockray
civil parish:-   Matterdale (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   inn
coordinates:-   NY39272162
1Km square:-   NY3921
10Km square:-   NY32


photograph
BND83.jpg  Innsign, faded coat of arms of Scotland.
(taken 5.2.2007)  
photograph
BND82.jpg (taken 5.2.2007)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 65 11) 
placename:-  Royal 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.

notes:-  
Built to be a coaching inn, 16th century. Tradition has it that Mary Queen of Scots, and William and Dorothy Wordsworth, stayed here.

button to lakes menu  Lakes Guides menu.