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Water Head Inn, Coniston
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Water Head Inn
locality:-   Water Head
civil parish:-   Coniston (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   inn
coordinates:-   SD31509799
1Km square:-   SD3197
10Km square:-   SD39
SummaryText:-   The site now has no obvious remains.
evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Lan 4) 
placename:-  Water Head 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.
evidence:-   old map:- Crosthwaite 1783-94 (Con) 
placename:-  Inn, The
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, An Accurate Map of Coniston Lake, scale about 3 inches to 1 mile, by Peter Crosthwaite, Keswick, Cumberland, 1788, version published 1809.
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"The Inn"
item:-  JandMN : 182.5
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evidence:-   possibly old print:- Middiman 1784-92
source data:-   Print, uncoloured engraving, Coniston Lake, Lancashire, drawn by F Wheatly, engraved and published by Samuel Middiman, 3 Grafton Street, Tottenham Court Road, London, 1785.
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"Drawn by F. Wheatly. / Engrav'd by S. Middiman. / CONISTON LAKE. / Publish'd as the Act directs, Jany. 21st. 1785, by S. Middiman, London."
item:-  Armitt Library : A6860.2
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evidence:-   old text:- Green 1810
placename:-  New Inn
source data:-   Set of prints, soft ground etchings, Sixty Studies from Nature, by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, drawn 1808-10, published 1810.
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page 1:-  "... the New Inn, which"
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page 2:-  "is at the head of the lake ..."
evidence:-   old map:- Greenwood 1824 (Lan) 
placename:-  Waterhead Inn
source data:-   Maps, Map of the County of Westmorland, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, and Map of the County of Cumberland, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, etc, by C and J Greenwood, published by George Pringle jnr, 70 Queen Street, Cheapside, London, 1823 and 1824 respectively.
evidence:-   old advertisement:- Atkinson 1847 (5th edn 1850) 
placename:-  Old Waterhead Inn
source data:-   Advertisement for Thomas Atkinson at the Waterhead Inn, Coniston, Lancashire, 1850.
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At the end of a Handbook to the English Lakes, 5th edn. 
item:-  Armitt Library : A1144.26
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