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Bush Inn, Carlisle
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Bush Inn
Street:-   English Street
locality:-   Carlisle
civil parish:-   Carlisle (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   inn
coordinates:-   NY40145573
1Km square:-   NY4055
10Km square:-   NY45
evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 23 3) 
placename:-  Bush Hotel
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:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 23 3) 
placename:-  Bush Hotel
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.
"Bush Hotel"
An archway on the S side of the inn went through to Blackfriars Street, roughly in line with Gaol Brow. 
evidence:-   road book:- Cary 1798 (2nd edn 1802) 
placename:-  Bush
source data:-   Road book, itineraries, Cary's New Itinerary, by John Cary, 181 Strand, London, 2nd edn 1802.
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page 269-270  "INNS. ... Carlisle, Bush, Coffee House. ..."
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page 285-286  "INNS. ... Carlisle, Bush, Coffee House. ..."
item:-  JandMN : 228.1
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evidence:-   road book:- Cary 1798 (2nd edn 1802) 
placename:-  Bush
source data:-   Road book, itineraries, Cary's New Itinerary, by John Cary, 181 Strand, London, 2nd edn 1802.
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page 555-556  "INNS. Carlisle, Blue Bell, Bush, Coffee House. ..."
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page 557-558  "INNS. Carlisle, Blue Bell, Bush, Coffee House. ..."
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page 699-700  "INNS. ... Carlisle, Blue Bell, Bush, Coffee House."
item:-  JandMN : 228.2
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evidence:-   descriptive text:- Ford 1839 (3rd edn 1843) 
placename:-  Bush Inn
placename:-  Bush Hotel
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 106:-  "... the Bush Inn, which is also well-known on the road as a superior posting-house and hotel, ..."
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Page 175:-  "..."
"[Carlisle] ... Bush, Crown and Mitre, and Royal Hotels, excellent"
evidence:-   old text:- Harper 1907
item:-  mail coach; stage coach; Corby Castle; Gretna marriage; elopement; Battle of Waterloo
source data:-   Guidebook, The Manchester and Glasgow Road, by Charles G Harper, published by Chapman and Hall Ltd, London, 1907.
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Page 147:-  "... My old friend, Mr. W. H. Duignan, of Walsall, ... travelled from Carlisle to Glasgow by the last mail-coach. He went to the "Bush" hotel and booked a seat for the occasion."
"The bookkeeper remarked, when he gave his name, "I think I have often booked you before, sir, have I not?""
""Yes," the traveller replied."
""Then, sir," rejoined the clerk, refusing the money, "Mr. ---" - mentioning the name of the hotel-keeper - "will feel it a pleasure, if you will accept a seat, and order anything you please, at his expense.""
"My friend declared that it was the most gentlemanly-dying mail he ever knew."
"The "Bush" has since been rebuilt, but at Corby Castle, some two miles away, in what was once the "Haunted Room," there hangs in a frame an interesting pane of glass from one of its windows, inscribed by no less notable a traveller than Hume, the historian, with the satirical verse, reflecting upon the "Bush," the Cathedral, and Carlisle in general:"
""
"Here chicks in eggs for breakfast sprawl;"
"Here godless boys God's glories squall:"
"Here heads of Scotchmen guard the wall,"
"Corby's walks atone for all"
"Sir Walter Scott saw this in 1825, and humorously remarked in a letter to his friend Morritt upon "Hume's poetical works.""
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Page 180:-  "... [Gretna marriages] ..."
"Jack Ainslee, of the "Bush," Carlisle, was a sworn enemy to parents and guardians. he was perpetually signing his name as a witness to marriages, and was in fact quite a consulting counsel to love-lorn squires and damsels. To have him, in his yellow jacket, on the near wheeler was worth as many points to them as it was for attorneys to retain a leading K.C. When pushed hard, Jack knew of cunning bye-lanes and woods to hide the pursued couples in, and had occupation-roads across farms, and all that sort of geography, at his fingers' tips."
"On one occasion he altogether surpassed his previous doings. He had driven a runaway couple to Longtown, and as he thought they were taking it rather too easily, strongly advised them to cross the Border and get married before they dined. They were weary and would not be advised, and so he took his horses back to Carlisle and thought them "just poor silly things.""
"He had not long returned before the girl's mother and a Bow Street officer dashed up to the "Bush" in a post-chaise. There was not a second to lose, and so Jack, saying not a word to any one, jumped on a horse and galloped to Longtown. He had barely time to see the dawdlers huddled into a post-chaise, and to take his seat and clear the "lang toun" when the pursuers loomed in sight. The pursuit was so hot that the only way was to turn sharp down a lane. From it they saw the enemy fly past towards Gretna and so on the Annan, where they found themselves at fault and gave up the pursuit. The coast being thus cleared, Jack would stand no more nonsense, but saw his couple duly married and witnessed before he went back to Carlisle. The signatures of that marriage were"
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Page 181:-  "always looked at with a certain sad interest, for the bridegroom was killed the next year at Waterloo. This was Jack's "leading case." He was long remembered as a "civil old fellow, perhaps five feet seven if he was stretched out, and with such nice crooked legs.""
hearsay:-  
 On English Street where Victoria Viaduct now leaves it, demolished 1877 for the new road.
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