Bridge Hotel, Buttermere | ||
Bridge Hotel | ||
locality:- | Buttermere | |
civil parish:- | Buttermere (formerly Cumberland) | |
county:- | Cumbria | |
locality type:- | inn | |
coordinates:- | NY17481696 | |
1Km square:- | NY1716 | |
10Km square:- | NY11 | |
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BPA01.jpg (taken 16.4.2008) BPA03.jpg A guest book with the signature of A Wainwright. (taken 16.4.2008) courtesy of the Bridge Hotel. |
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evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 69) placename:- Queen Victoria Inn |
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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. "Queen Victoria Inn" |
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evidence:- | probably old text:- Green 1814 |
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source data:- | Set of prints, soft ground etchings, Sixty Small Prints, with
text, A Description of a Series of Sixty Small Prints, by
William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1814. goto source page 21:- "The horse-road to the Inn at Buttermere is eight miles and a half from Keswick, through the vale of Newlands; but the carriage-road is part of the way on the Cockermouth road, over Whinlatter, and through a part of the vale of Lorton, by Crummock Water to the Inn at Buttermere, which is somewhat more than fourteen miles. The Inn at Scale Hill (which is about half a mile from the outlet of Crummock Water and eleven miles from Keswick), and the Inn at Buttermere, are both of them excellent stationary places from which to see Buttermere, Crummock Water, Lows Water, and Ennerdale Water. The Inn at Buttermere lies at about an equal distance from the two lakes of Buttermere and Crummock; and the lofty mountains round the valley rise in sublime grandeur. ... the Inn is at the bottom of the Keswick road, on the eastern side of the vale; and the intermediate grounds are of sweet pasturage, with woods elegantly distributed over it. ..." |
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evidence:- | old advertisement:- Jenkinson 1875 B placename:- Victoria Hotel, The |
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source data:- | Advertisements for ... John Nelson, The Victoria Hotel, Buttermere, Cumberland, published
by Edward Stanford, 55 Charing Cross, London, 1875 edn 1884? click to enlarge JK1211.jpg Adverts p.17 at the back of Jenkinson's Smaller Practical Guide to Carlisle, Gilsland, Roman Wall and Neighbourhood. item:- Armitt Library : A1717.12 Image © see bottom of page |
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evidence:- | old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s placename:- Victoria Hotel |
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source data:- | Photograph, sepia, Victoria Hotel, Buttermere, Cumberland, by Herbert Bell, photographer,
Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s? click to enlarge HB0983.jpg Now enlarged, the Bridge Hotel. item:- Armitt Library : 1958.4303 Image © see bottom of page |
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evidence:- | probably old advertisement:- Philip/Wilson 1890s placename:- Buttermere Hotel |
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source data:- | Advertisement from The Concise Series of Guides No.1, The English Lake District, published
about 1895. click to enlarge PW1A21.jpg Guide book published by George Philip and Son, 32 Fleet Street, London, Philip, Son and Nephew, Liverpool, Lancashire, and Titus Wilson, Kendal, Westmorland, about 1895. item:- JandMN : 58 Image © see bottom of page |
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BPA02.jpg In an earlier guise as The Victoria. (taken 16.4.2008) courtesy of the Bridge Hotel. |
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hearsay:- |
Earlier on this site was a storehouse associated with the mill higher up the Mill
Beck. |
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The buildings were sold to the church about 1734. There were several buildings and
the curate, Robert Walker, got a beer licence for this part, in his brother's name,
and established the Bridge Inn. It later fell into disrepair and was bought by Jonathan
Sleap, a solicitor from London, who rebuilt it as the Victoria, about 1837. It was
inherited from him by Mrs Haidee Cooper, 1861, who added the bay windows. In 1921
she sold it to Nicholas Size, author of The Secret Valley. When he died it had somewhat
declined and new owners restored it and changed the name back to The Bridge. |
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