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Old King's Head, Broughton in Furness
Old King's Head
Street:-   Station Road
locality:-   Broughton in Furness
civil parish:-   Broughton West (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   inn
coordinates:-   SD21138748
1Km square:-   SD2187
10Km square:-   SD28
references:-   Listed Buildings 2010


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BVS10.jpg  Innsign, Henry VIII.
(taken 24.11.2011)  
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BVS09.jpg (taken 24.11.2011)  

evidence:-   old advertisement:- Linton 1852
placename:-  Tyson's Hotel
source data:-   Advertisement, for A Tyson, Tyson's Hotel, Broughton West, ... Cumberland, published by Whittaker and Co, London, and by R Gibson and Son and by Callander and Dixon, Whitehaven, Cumberland, 1852.
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LN1A11.jpg
Advertisments p.11 in A Handbook of the Whitehaven and Furness Railway, by John Linton. 
item:-  Armitt Library : A1158.24
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evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Old King's Head
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"OLD KING'S HEAD PUBLIC HOUSE / / STATION ROAD / BROUGHTON WEST / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 75839 / SD2113587485"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Public House. 1st mentioned as Church House in 1666 but probably mid C18. Roughcast stone with slate roof. 2 storeys, 6 bays. Ground floor has small-pared casement to 1st bay, sashed window with single glazing bars and horns to 2nd bay, 3rd and 5th bays have sashes with glazing bars, paired sash to 3rd bay; 6th bay has window with small-paned fixed glazing. 1st floor has sashed windows with glazing bars, 1st 2 with horns. Entrance to 4th bay has flat bracketed canopy and 6-panel door. Gable-end stack and cross-axial stacks. Rear has later outshuts."

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