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Abbey Bridge, Lanercost
Abbey Bridge
locality:-   Lanercost
civil parish:-   Brampton (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   inn
coordinates:-   NY55326324
1Km square:-   NY5563
10Km square:-   NY56


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BOW40.jpg (taken 21.3.2008)  
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BOW39.jpg (taken 21.3.2008)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 18) 
placename:-  Lanercost 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.
"Lanercost Inn"

evidence:-   descriptive text:- Ford 1839 (3rd edn 1843) 
source data:-   Guide book, A Description of Scenery in the Lake District, by Rev William Ford, published by Charles Thurnam, Carlisle, by W Edwards, 12 Ave Maria Lane, Charles Tilt, Fleet Street, William Smith, 113 Fleet Street, London, by Currie and Bowman, Newcastle, by Bancks and Co, Manchester, by Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh, and by Sinclair, Dumfries, 1839.
image FD01P112, button  goto source
Page 112:-  "..."
"There is a decent inn at the bridge, where refreshment may be procured. ..."

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  New Bridge Hotel
placename:-  Black Bull Inn
placename:-  Lanercost Temperance Hotel
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"NEW BRIDGE HOTEL / / / BURTHOLME / CARLISLE / CUMBRIA / II / 77829 / NY5532463247"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Hotel. 1831 with late C19 extension. Dressed red sandstone with calciferous sandstone quoins and dressings, slate roof, red brick chimney stacks: extension of calciferous sandstone, slate roof with bargeboards. 2 storeys, 3 bays: single bay extension. C20 door, and fanlight with glazing bars, has pilaster strip surround with moulded capitals and round head with decorated false keystone. Sash windows with glazing bars have plain stone surrounds. Gabled extension to left, has large ground floor double casement window with glazing bars: triple casement above, with glazing bars and chamfered stone surrounds. Probably built as the Black Bull Inn, which was the Lanercost Temperance Hotel by 1890. Only recently renamed."

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