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| All Saints Rooms, Cockermouth | ||
| All Saints Rooms | ||
| locality:- | Cockermouth | |
| civil parish:- | Cockermouth (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | village hall (church hall) | |
| locality type:- | school (site) | |
| coordinates:- | NY12403061 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY1230 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY13 | |
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 BSI09.jpg (taken 19.3.2010)  BOQ47.jpg Plaque:- "ON THIS SITE STOOD / THE GRAMMAR SCHOOL WHICH / WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, POET LAUREATE, / ATTENDED AS A BOY. / TO THIS SCHOOL ALSO CAME / FLETCHER CHRISTIAN, / LEADER OF THE MUTINY OF THE BOUNTY / APRIL 28TH 1788." (taken 13.2.2008) |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd) |
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| 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. D41230H.jpg "Free School" building in churchyard item:- Carlisle Library : Map 2 Image © Carlisle Library |
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| evidence:- | perhaps old text:- Farington 1816 |
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| source data:- | Descriptive text:- "..." "The free-school at Cockermouth was founded in the reign of Charles II. by Philip, Lord Wharton, Sir Richard Graham, and others. The sum of ten pounds per annum is paid to the master by Lord Lonsdale, as charged upon the great tithes, and a further sum of ten pounds has for some years been added as a gratuity. Over the school-house is a library, founded by the associates of the late Dr. Bray, to which Dr. Keene, Bishop of Chester, was a considerable benefactor." item:- Armitt Library : A6666.23 Image © see bottom of page |
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 BOQ46.jpg (taken 13.2.2008) |
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