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Kings Arms Hotel, Shap
Kings Arms Hotel
locality:-   Shap
civil parish:-   Shap (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   inn
coordinates:-   NY56421476
1Km square:-   NY5614
10Km square:-   NY51


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BNW85.jpg (taken 30.7.2007)  
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BNW84.jpg (taken 30.7.2007)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 14 14) 
placename:-  Kings Arms
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:-   road book:- Cary 1798 (2nd edn 1802) 
placename:-  King's Arms
source data:-   Road book, itineraries, Cary's New Itinerary, by John Cary, 181 Strand, London, 2nd edn 1802.
image CY38p269, button  goto source
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page 269-270  "INNS. ... Shap, King's Arms, New Inn. ..."
item:-  JandMN : 228.1
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