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White Ox, High Hesket
White Ox
locality:-   High Hesket
civil parish:-   Hesket (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   inn
1Km square:-   NY4744
10Km square:-   NY44

evidence:-   descriptive text:- Ford 1839 (3rd edn 1843) 
placename:-  White Ox
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 175:-  "[High Hesket] ... Has an excellent inn, the White Ox, conducted by Mrs. Pearson. ..."

evidence:-   old text:- Harper 1907
placename:-  White Ox
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 136:-  "... another dilapidated old "White Ox" inn, once busy with traffic of a bygone day. The motor-cars disregard it, or merely halt for that last indignity to an inn, a pail of water wherewith to"
HP01p137.txt
Page 137:-  "cool their engines. ..."

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