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Hole in t' Wall, Bowness-on-Windermere
Hole in t' Wall
Hole int Wall
New Hall Inn
Street:-   Lowside
locality:-   Bowness-on-Windermere
civil parish:-   Windermere (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   inn
coordinates:-   SD40259698
1Km square:-   SD4096
10Km square:-   SD49


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BRL78.jpg  Innsign - a stone waller and a wall with a hole.
(taken 18.9.2009)  
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BRL77.jpg (taken 18.9.2009)  
The rear wall carries both pub names.

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  New Hall Inn
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"NEW HALL INN, WITH ATTACHED BUILDINGS TO SOUTH / / LOWSIDE / WINDERMERE TOWN / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 351695 / SD4027296988"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"C17, altered. Roughcast walls, new slate roof with round chimney, 2 low storeys. 2 doors. 4 windows on each floor, mostly double sashes with wooden mullions, each sash 6-paned. Former stable and loft are attached at right angles on the right (south). White House, Robinson, New Hall Inn with attached buildings to south, Lowside and Fold Head, Fallbarrow Road, form an important village centre group with Parish Church of St Martin, Lake Road, and No 1, Premises occupied by Hairdresser, Old Kirk Cafe, Old Curio Shop, Stags Head Inn and Rose Cottage, Church Street."


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BRL79.jpg  Notice:-
"... OLDEST TAVERN IN BOWNESS / FREQUENTED BY Charles Dickens / HARTLEYS FINEST DRAUGHT ALE ... // SORRY NO PRAMS OR DOGS IN PUB" (taken 18.9.2009)  
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BRL80.jpg  Stone plaque with blacksmith's tools.
(taken 18.9.2009)  
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BWE37.jpg  Window grill!
(taken 30.3.2012)  
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BWE36.jpg  Stained glass:-
"C/ D R" "A.D. / 1899" "C / I S" "C / A D" (taken 30.3.2012)  
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BRL81.jpg  Innsign.
(taken 18.9.2009)  

notes:-  
It got its name through ale being served throu a holein the wall to the neighbouring smithy.
The landlord in 1857 was Thomas Longmire, a Cumberland wrestler.

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