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Kirkstone Pass Inn
Kirkstone Inn
locality:-   Kirkstone Pass
civil parish:-   Lakes (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   inn
coordinates:-   NY40110804
1Km square:-   NY4008
10Km square:-   NY40
altitude:-   1481 feet
altitude:-   451m

photograph
BJS65.jpg  Built in 1496, it says.
(taken 17.8.2005)  
evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 19 15) 
placename:-  Kirkstone
placename:-  Travellers 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.
"Kirkstone (Travellers Inn)"
evidence:-   old drawing:- Aspland 1840s-60s
source data:-   Drawing, pencil and sepia wash, Kirkstone Pass Inn, Westmorland, by Theophilus Lindsey Aspland, 1852.
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AS0328.jpg
item:-  Armitt Library : 1958.390.28
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evidence:-   old drawing:- Aspland 1840s-60s
source data:-   Drawing, pencil, Kirkstone Pass Inn, Westmorland, by Theophilus Lindsey Aspland, 30 August 1852.
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AS0329.jpg
"Aug 29 30."
page number  "(22"
item:-  Armitt Library : 1958.390.29
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evidence:-   old text:- Martineau 1855
source data:-   Guide book, A Complete Guide to the English Lakes, by Harriet Martineau, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, and by Whittaker and Co, London, 1855; published 1855-76.
image MNU1P036, button  goto source
Page 36:-  "..."
"His [up from Windermere] road meets the one from Ambleside at a small public-house, which the Ordnance Surveyors have declared the highest inhabited house in England: and thus it is labelled by a board over the porch. ..."
evidence:-   old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s
source data:-   Photograph, black and white, The Travellers Rest, now Kirkstone Pass Inn, Patterdale, Westmorland, by Herbert Bell, photographer, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s.
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HB0628.jpg
stamped on reverse:-  "HERBERT BELL / Photographer / AMBLESIDE"
item:-  Armitt Library : ALPS290
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evidence:-   old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s
item:-  coach; costume
source data:-   Photograph, black and white, coaches at the Kirkstone Pass Inn, Patterdale, Westmorland, by Herbert Bell, photographer, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s.
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HB0627.jpg
The coach on the left is inscribed 'ULLSWATER'. 
item:-  Armitt Library : ALPS288
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evidence:-   old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s
source data:-   Photograph, black and white, The Traveller's Rest now Kirkstone Pass Inn, by Herbert Bell, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s?
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HB0227.jpg
stamped at rev:-  "HERBERT BELL / Photographer / AMBLESIDE"
item:-  Armitt Library : 1958.5146
Image © see bottom of page
evidence:-   old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s
source data:-   Photograph, black and white, The Travellers Rest, now Kirkstone Pass Inn, Patterdale, Westmorland, by Herbert Bell, photographer, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s.
image  click to enlarge
HB0628.jpg
stamped on reverse:-  "HERBERT BELL / Photographer / AMBLESIDE"
item:-  Armitt Library : ALPS290
Image © see bottom of page
evidence:-   old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s
item:-  coach; costume
source data:-   Photograph, black and white, coaches at the Kirkstone Pass Inn, Patterdale, Westmorland, by Herbert Bell, photographer, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s.
image  click to enlarge
HB0627.jpg
The coach on the left is inscribed 'ULLSWATER'. 
item:-  Armitt Library : ALPS288
Image © see bottom of page
evidence:-   old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s
source data:-   Photograph, black and white, The Traveller's Rest now Kirkstone Pass Inn, by Herbert Bell, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s?
image  click to enlarge
HB0227.jpg
stamped at rev:-  "HERBERT BELL / Photographer / AMBLESIDE"
item:-  Armitt Library : 1958.5146
Image © see bottom of page
evidence:-   old print:- Pearson 1900s
placename:-  Travellers Rest
source data:-   Print, halftone photograph, Top of the Kirkstone, The Travellers Rest, or Kirkstone Pass Inn, Westmorland, published by C Arthur Pearson, Henrietta Street, London, 1900s.
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On p.83 of Pearson's Gossipy Guide to the English Lakes and Neighbouring Districts. 
printed at bottom:-  "THE TOP OF THE KIRKSTONE. THE 'TRAVELLERS REST.' (p.84). / (The highest inn in Lakeland, but not in England)."
item:-  Armitt Library : A1188.38
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photograph
BNP84.jpg  Courtesy of the Kirkstone Pass Inn.
hearsay:-  
 The inn was built by a priest from troutbeck, 1496:-
"... in order for workers and travellers alike to stop and rest away from the harsh weather which comes without warning."
hearsay:-  
 Other sources say the inn was built by Parson Sewell 1781-1869, incumbent of Troutbeck, 1840.
hearsay:-  
 The visitors' book:-
"The Sunday traveller on the Kirkstone Pass
Is bona fide and may have a glass
So gentle stranger, do not stop to think,
Open your mouth, throw back your head and drink.
And while reposing 'neath the bleak fell-sides,
As down your throat the nimble liquor glides,
Bless the kind parson who with these rude stones
Built this 'ere Inn to rest your weary bones."
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