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Brown Cow Inn, Hawkshead
Brown Cow Inn
Street:-   Main Street
locality:-   Hawkshead
civil parish:-   Hawkshead (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   inn (gone?) 
coordinates:-   SD35249813
1Km square:-   SD3598
10Km square:-   SD39

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Lan 5 2) 
placename:-  Brown Cow Inn
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.

hearsay:-  
The landlord here had a giant clog, described in the Ambleside Herald, 26 June 1880:-
"It is a proper monster. After measuring it we found it to be nearly twenty inches long, over eight inches wide at the bottom, sixteen inches from welt to welt across the front, twenty-two inches round the back from tab to tab, and the length of the heel seven inches. ... We were informed that the wearer of this clog had been dead some years. He used to follow mole catching, and lived to a great age."

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