Old Cumbria Gazetteer |
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| Low Bridge Inn, Kentmere | ||
| Low Bridge Inn | ||
| locality:- | Kentmere | |
| civil parish:- | Kentmere (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | inn (once) | |
| coordinates:- | NY45790402 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY4504 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY40 | |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 27 10) placename:- Low Bridge Inn placename:- Bridge Inn, Low |
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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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| hearsay:- |
There was an inn here for 300 years, till 1897. It lost its license because it was
'too far from police supervision'. The case, Sharpe v Wakefield, went on appeal to
the House of Lords, and established the absolute discretion of magistrates to grant
or refuse a license. |
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