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Black Horse, Killington
Black Horse
civil parish:-   Killington (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   SD62079168
1Km square:-   SD6291
10Km square:-   SD69


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BJY92.jpg (taken 4.11.2005)  
photograph
BJY93.jpg (taken 4.11.2005)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 39 8) 
placename:-  Black Horse
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.
"Black Horse (P.H.)"

evidence:-   descriptive text:- Otley 1823 (8th edn 1849) 
placename:-  Black Horse
placename:-  Scotch Jean's
source data:-   Guide book, A Concise Description of the English Lakes, the mountains in their vicinity, and the roads by which they may be visited, with remarks on the mineralogy and geology of the district, by Jonathan Otley, published by the author, Keswick, Cumberland now Cumbria, by J Richardson, London, and by Arthur Foster, Kirkby Lonsdale, Cumbria, 1823; published 1823-49, latterly as the Descriptive Guide to the English Lakes.
image OT80P188, button  goto source
Page 188:-  "..."
"Cross the Rothay, and proceed up the valley [of the Lune], in a westerly direction, to the Black Horse in Killington, or more commonly 'Scotch Jean's.' ..."

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Black Horse
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"BLACK HORSE / / B6256 / KILLINGTON / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 75677 / SD6207091685"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Public House, now house. C19. Dressed stone with ashlar dressings and slate roof. 2 storeys, 2 bays. Wide eaves with curved gutter brackets. Windows have ashlar surrounds, and are sashed with glazing bars; triple sashes to ground floor, tripartite sashes to 1st floor. Central entrance has ashlar surround and glazed door. Plaque above has architrave and relief of saddled and bridled horse on coronet. Gable-end stacks. Returns have lean-to outshuts, one with wide-boarded door and small-paned window, the other with mounting block."


photograph
BTY86.jpg  Embroidered kneeler, All Saints, Killington.
(taken 28.1.2011)  

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