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Black Lion, Whitehaven
Black Lion
Street:-   King Street
locality:-   Whitehaven
civil parish:-   Whitehaven (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   inn
coordinates:-   NX97281818 (??) 
1Km square:-   NX9718
10Km square:-   NX91

evidence:-   descriptive text:- Ford 1839 (3rd edn 1843) 
placename:-  Black Lion
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.
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Page 173:-  "[Whitehaven] ... inns, Black Lion, Golden Lion, and Globe."

evidence:-   old advertisement:- Linton 1852
placename:-  Black Lion Hotel
source data:-   Advertisement, ... for Braithwaite, Black Lion Hotel, King Street, Whitehaven, Cumberland, published by Whittaker and Co, London, and by R Gibson and Son and by Callander and Dixon, Whitehaven, Cumberland, 1852.
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Advertisments p.3 in A Handbook of the Whitehaven and Furness Railway, by John Linton. 
item:-  Armitt Library : A1158.16
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