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Keswick School, Great Crosthwaite
Keswick School
Street:-   Church Lane
locality:-   Great Crosthwaite
civil parish:-   Keswick (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   school
coordinates:-   NY25752424
1Km square:-   NY2524
10Km square:-   NY22
SummaryText:-   Now a science centre for the larger, newer school.


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BYI97.jpg (taken 21.5.2013)  
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BYI98.jpg  Plaque
(taken 21.5.2013)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 64 2) 
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.
"Grammar School (Endowed)"
and to NW:-  "Play Ground"

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 FD01P052, button  goto source
Page 52:-  "... Near the parish church-yard is the Grammar School, and the charitable institutions are very numerous and creditable to the inhabitants. ..."

Paley and Austin series
person:-   architect
 : Austin, Hubert J
person:-   architect
 : Paley, Henry A
date:-  
Building work?

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