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| Green Dragon, Workington | ||
| Green Dragon | ||
| Street:- | Portland Square | |
| locality:- | Workington | |
| civil parish:- | Workington (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | inn | |
| coordinates:- | NY00642857 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY0028 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY02 | |
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 BRJ27.jpg Innsign - stage coach at the door of the inn. (taken 2.9.2009)  BRJ26.jpg (taken 2.9.2009) |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 53 11) placename:- Green Dragon Hotel |
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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. |
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| evidence:- | road book:- Cary 1798 (2nd edn 1802) placename:- Green Dragon |
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| source data:- | Road book, itineraries, Cary's New Itinerary, by John Cary, 181
Strand, London, 2nd edn 1802. goto source click to enlargeC38317.jpg page 317-318 "INNS. ... Workington, Green Dragon, King's Arms" item:- JandMN : 228.1 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | road book:- Cary 1798 (2nd edn 1802) placename:- Green Dragon |
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| source data:- | Road book, itineraries, Cary's New Itinerary, by John Cary, 181
Strand, London, 2nd edn 1802. goto source click to enlargeC38557.jpg page 557-558 "INNS. ... Workington, Green Dragon, King's Arms." item:- JandMN : 228.2 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | descriptive text:- Ford 1839 (3rd edn 1843) placename:- Green Dragon |
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| 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. goto source Page 173:- "..." "[Workington] ... inns, Green Dragon, New Crown, and King's Arms." |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:- Green Dragon Hotel |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "GREEN DRAGON HOTEL / / PORTLAND SQUARE / WORKINGTON / ALLERDALE / CUMBRIA / II / 72284 / NY0063328558" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "Hotel. Late C18 or early C19. Painted incised stucco walls, with angle pilasters, on moulded plinth. Graduated greenslate roof with painted and rendered chimney stacks. 3 storeys, 3 bays, with right 2 storeys, 4 bays under common roof. 6-panel door with overlight in pilastered doorcase, the frieze with urns. Sash windows with glazing bars, those in end bays right without bars, all in painted stone surrounds. Right portion has flat C20 dormer windows. Taken over by the Central Control Board in 1916 and returned to private ownership in 1973." |
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