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| Ship Hotel, Allonby | ||
| Ship Hotel | ||
| locality:- | Allonby | |
| civil parish:- | Allonby (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | inn | |
| coordinates:- | NY08134294 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY0842 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY04 | |
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 BZU72.jpg Innsign, a ship. (taken 7.2.2014)  BZU71.jpg (taken 7.2.2014) |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 35 6) placename:- Ship 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:- Ship Hotel |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "SHIP HOTEL / / ALLONBY / ALLONBY / ALLERDALE / CUMBRIA / II / 410411 / NY0814242943" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "Hotel. Late C18 or early C19. Painted stucco and roughcast walls, with V-jointed quoins and eaves cornice, on chamfered plinth. Graduated greenslate roof with coped gables and kneelers; painted stucco chimney stacks. 3 storeys, 5 bays. C20 door in painted stone architrave with C20 gabled porch. Sash windows in painted stone architraves. A large hotel for a small town but this was at one time an important sea-bathing resort for the gentry. Charles Dickens stayed here on a tour of the Lakes in 1856. Extension to right is not of interest." |
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 CHA94.jpg Kneeler in Christ Church, Allonby. (taken 22.2.2018)  BNV71.jpg Innsign, a ship, badly corroded by the salt sea's spray. (taken 20.6.2007) |
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| hearsay:- |
Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins stayed here, 1857. |
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