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Stags Head, Bowness-on-Windermere
Stags Head
Stags Head Hotel
Street:-   Church Street
locality:-   Bowness-on-Windermere
civil parish:-   Windermere (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   inn
coordinates:-   SD40239690
1Km square:-   SD4096
10Km square:-   SD49


photograph
BRL61.jpg  Innsign - a stag.
(taken 18.9.2009)  
photograph
BRL60.jpg (taken 18.9.2009)  

evidence:-   old advertisement:- Jenkinson 1875 B
placename:-  Stags Head Hotel
source data:-   Advertisements for ... Richard Lowis, Stag's Head Hotel, Bowness-on-Windermere, Westmorland, ... published by Edward Stanford, 55 Charing Cross, London, 1875 edn 1884?
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JK1215.jpg
Adverts p.23 at the back of Jenkinson's Smaller Practical Guide to Carlisle, Gilsland, Roman Wall and Neighbourhood. 
item:-  Armitt Library : A1717.16
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Stags Head Inn
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"STAGS HEAD INN / / CHURCH STREET / WINDERMERE TOWN / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 351663 / SD4022296914"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Faces north-west corner of Church. Three storeys, Victorian, but an earlier and lower part on east end. This earlier part, probably C18, has a centre door with small wooden fretted porch, 2 sash windows on ground floor and 3 on each upper floor (ground and first floors with louvred shutters), wall of scored stucco, flag roof. Higher and later part of stone (slate) rubble with quoins; a 4-storeyed octagonal tower on west angle with a pyramidal roof and wind vane. Sash windows."
"Lintel of one window painted with "Post horses for hire". No 1, Premises occupied by Hairdresser, Old Kirk Cafe, Old Curio Shop, Stags Head Inn and Rose Cottage form an important village centre group with Parish Church of St Martin, Lake Road, White House, Robinson Place, New Hall Inn with attached buildings to south, Lowside, and Fold Head, Fallbarrow Road."


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BRL63.jpg  Sign:-
"STAGS HEAD HOTEL" (taken 18.9.2009)  
photograph
BRL62.jpg  Advertisment:-
"POST HORSES for HIRE" (taken 18.9.2009)  

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