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Keswick Station, Keswick
Keswick Station
site name:-   Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith Railway
locality:-   Keswick
civil parish:-   Keswick (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   railway station
coordinates:-   NY27062378
1Km square:-   NY2723
10Km square:-   NY22
SummaryText:-   Opened 1865; closed 1972.

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BMR33.jpg (taken 19.9.2006)  
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BMR34.jpg (taken 19.9.2006)  
evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 64 2) 
placename:-  Keswick Station
item:-  crane; railway milepost
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.
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"Keswick Station / M.P. / Crane / ... / Railway Hotel / ..."
evidence:-   old map:- Postlethwaite 1877 (3rd edn 1913) 
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Map of the Lake District Mining Field, Westmorland, Cumberland, Lancashire, scale about 5 miles to 1 inch, by John Postlethwaite, published by W H Moss and Sons, 13 Lowther Street, Whitehaven, Cumberland, 1877 edn 1913.
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PST2NY22.jpg
station on railway at Keswick 
item:-  JandMN : 162.2
Image © see bottom of page
evidence:-   old drawing:- Postlethwaite 1877
placename:-  Keswick Railway Station
item:-  
source data:-   Print, drawing of the geological strata, Cutting at Western End of Keswick Railway Station, Keswick, Cumberland, by EH, published by W H Moss and Sons, 13 Lowther Street, Whitehaven, Cumberland, 1877 edn 1913.
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PST314.jpg
On p.51 of Mines and Mining in the English Lake District, by John Postlethwaite. 
printed, lower left  "E.H"
item:-  JandMN : 162.16
Image © see bottom of page
evidence:-   old map:- Postlethwaite 1877 (3rd edn 1913) 
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Map of the Lake District Mining Field, Westmorland, Cumberland, Lancashire, scale about 5 miles to 1 inch, by John Postlethwaite, published by W H Moss and Sons, 13 Lowther Street, Whitehaven, Cumberland, 1877 edn 1913.
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PST2NY22.jpg
station on railway at Keswick 
item:-  JandMN : 162.2
Image © see bottom of page
evidence:-   old drawing:- Postlethwaite 1877
placename:-  Keswick Railway Station
item:-  
source data:-   Print, drawing of the geological strata, Cutting at Western End of Keswick Railway Station, Keswick, Cumberland, by EH, published by W H Moss and Sons, 13 Lowther Street, Whitehaven, Cumberland, 1877 edn 1913.
image  click to enlarge
PST314.jpg
On p.51 of Mines and Mining in the English Lake District, by John Postlethwaite. 
printed, lower left  "E.H"
item:-  JandMN : 162.16
Image © see bottom of page
evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Keswick Railway Station
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"KESWICK RAILWAY STATION BUILDING AND PLATFORM / / STATION ROAD / KESWICK / ALLERDALE / CUMBRIA / II / 71801 / NY2706623769"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Now disused. Built 1860's for the Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith Railway Company. Lakeland green stone with green slate roof. Two 2-storeyed gabled wings joined by canopied entrance in middle with half-dormer above. Sash windows with sandstone dressings. Platform facade has 3 gables, and very fine glass canopy over the whole platform (about 240 ft) consisting of about 20 gabled bays (hipped on rails side), with cusped lower edging, supported on iron columns and iron arches with delicate iron tracery in spandrels. Stone paving to platform."
evidence:-   old print:- 
placename:-  Keswick Railway Station
source data:-   Print, uncoloured engraving, Scott's Lodore Hotel, Derwentwater, published by J Scott, Lodore Hotel, Cumberland,
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Viewed from the lake side. The reverse side has an advertisement for the hotel:-  "... An Omnibus meets the Trains at the Keswick Railway Station, and also runs in connection with Rigg's Royal Mail Coaches from Windermere. ..."
printed at bottom:-  "Scott's Lodore Hotel, Derwentwater"
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2008.107.406
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BOJ87.jpg (taken 12.12.2007)  
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BVL04.jpg  Platform canopy.
(taken 1.10.2011)  
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BVL05.jpg  Cast iron.
(taken 1.10.2011)  
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BVL06.jpg  Window.
(taken 1.10.2011)  

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BRA68.jpg (taken 9.7.2009)  courtesy of Keswick Museum.
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