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| Drunken Duck, Hawkshead | ||
| Drunken Duck Inn | ||
| Barngates Inn | ||
| civil parish:- | Hawkshead (formerly Lancashire) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | inn | |
| coordinates:- | NY35070127 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY3501 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY30 | |
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 BSD38.jpg The old innsign now lurking in the car park - the drunken duck. (taken 14.2.2010)  BSD37.jpg (taken 14.2.2010) |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Lan 2 10) placename:- Barngates Inn |
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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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| evidence:- | old strip map:- Rumney 1899 placename:- Barn Gates Inn |
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| source data:- | Road map, strip map, gradient diagram, and itinerary for Route VI, Ambleside to Coniston
by Barngates, Westmorland and Lancashire, scale about 2 miles to 1 inch, by A W Rumney,
published by George Philip and Son, 32 Fleet Street, London, and Liverpool, 1899. click to enlargeRUM108.jpg On p.30 of the Cyclist's Guide to the English Lake District, by A W Rumney. printed at top:- "Route VI. - AMBLESIDE TO CONISTON by / BARNGATES." item:- JandMN : 147.9 Image © see bottom of page |
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 BSD39.jpg The new innsign - designer work. (taken 14.2.2010)  BSD40.jpg Date stone:- "R.W.B. / P.A.B. / D.L. / G.A. / 1989" (taken 14.2.2010) |
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| hearsay:- |
It is said that a barrel of beer got broken in the yard, and a duck drunk up and passed
out. It was taken for a dead duck and plucked by the landlady, but revived before
it could be put in the pot. It waddled off quacking drunkenly. The landlady knitted
a wooly coat for the poor naked bird. |
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| The spilt ale was guzzled by a passing flight of wild ducks - Alesburies perhaps. |
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