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Stocks Inn |
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Duke of York |
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Duke of Wellington |
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Stubbings |
| locality:- |
Stocks |
| civil parish:- |
Skelsmergh (formerly Westmorland) |
| county:- |
Cumbria |
| locality type:- |
inn |
| coordinates:- |
SD52949648 (estimate) |
| 1Km square:- |
SD5296 |
| 10Km square:- |
SD59 |
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hearsay:-
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This was a farm called Stubbings, bequeathed by Adam Pykering to his daughter Christabel,
1599. It was sold in 1751, advertised as
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"a convenient house for publick house business"
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beside a main road north. The local vicar, George Reade, called it
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"a trap to allure hay makers and other toilers to waste their hardly earned wages"
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The innkeeper was run over and killed by a stagecoach in 1831; he was lying asleep
in the road.
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On a Sunday morning in 1847, Robert Rowlandson, aged 80, died here after drinking
too much rum and milk with eggs, given him by two local men. The two men were tried
for manslaughter.
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The Manor Court of Slesmergh and Longsleddale met here in the 19th century.
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It was pulled down about 1870.
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information courtesy of Tony Cousins
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