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Crown and Cushion, Appleby
Crown and Cushion
Street:-   Boroughgate
locality:-   Appleby
civil parish:-   Appleby-in-Westmorland (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   inn
coordinates:-   NY68322039
1Km square:-   NY6820
10Km square:-   NY62


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BME69.jpg  Innsign, crown and cushion.
(taken 30.5.2006)  
photograph
BME68.jpg (taken 30.5.2006)  


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BUS98.jpg (taken 17.6.2011)  

evidence:-   perhaps road book:- Cary 1798 (2nd edn 1802) 
placename:-  Crown
source data:-   Road book, itineraries, Cary's New Itinerary, by John Cary, 181 Strand, London, 2nd edn 1802.
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page 285-286  "INNS. ... Appleby, Crown. ..."
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page 315-316  "INN. Appleby, Crown."
item:-  JandMN : 228.1
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evidence:-   perhaps descriptive text:- Wallis 1810
placename:-  Crown
placename:-  Crown and Mitre
source data:-   Map, Westmoreland, scale about 19 miles to 1 inch, and Cumberland, scale about 16 miles to 1 inch, by James Wallis, 77 Berwick Street, Soho, London, 1810; published 1810-36.
"PRINCIPAL INNS, RECOMMENDED TO TRAVELLERS AND FAMILIES."
"Appleby: Crown, King's Head, Crown and Mitre."

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"/ 2,4 AND 6 / BOROUGHGATE / APPLEBY IN WESTMORLAND / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 73640 / NY6831720386"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"A probably earlier building altered in the mid C18. Roughcast over stone, old slate roof with stone chimneys, long and short quoins. Two plain windows on ground floor without glazing bars, and small shop front. Four twelve paned sash windows above. No. 2 (the Crown and Cushion) is a probably C17 lobby entry house. Square headed doorway with heavily moulded architrave, probably early C18. Three storeyed wing at rear facing Low Wiend has three sash windows on each floor in stone architraves. Rainwater head dated 1764."

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