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Wild Duck, Branthwaite
Wild Duck
locality:-   Branthwaite
civil parish:-   Dean (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   inn
coordinates:-   NY05692494
1Km square:-   NY0524
10Km square:-   NY02


photograph
BPA16.jpg  The innsign shows a female scaup, Aythya marila, which is a migrant, mostly maritime, duck. The painting is from an illustration by Philippa Scott.
(taken 16.4.2008)  
photograph
BPA15.jpg (taken 16.4.2008)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 62 1) 
placename:-  Globe Inn
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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