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Sun Inn, Ulverston
locality:-   Ulverston
civil parish:-   Ulverston (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   inn
coordinates:-   SD28627836
1Km square:-   SD2878
10Km square:-   SD27


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(taken 10.7.2006)  
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evidence:-   road book:- Cary 1798 (2nd edn 1802) 
placename:-  Sun
source data:-   Road book, itineraries, Cary's New Itinerary, by John Cary, 181 Strand, London, 2nd edn 1802.
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page 653-654  "INNS, ... Ulverston, Bradyll's Arms, Sun."
item:-  JandMN : 228.2
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evidence:-   descriptive text:- Otley 1823 (5th edn 1834) 
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.
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Page 95:-  "[Ulverston] Is a neat market town, ... two good inns, the Sun, and the Bradyll's Arms. ..."

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Sun Hotel
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"SUN HOTEL / / MARKET STREET / ULVERSTON / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 459990 / SD2862378341"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Public house. Probably late C18 with C19 and late C20 alterations. Painted scored render with slate monopitch roof. 3 storeys and 5 bays. The windows have plain reveals and projecting sills and are sashed, those on the ground floor without glazing bars. The right-hand bay on the ground floor has a canted bay window recessed within a wide opening. The door, in the 3rd bay, has a painted stone doorcase with engaged Tuscan columns and a pediment. Brick chimney to left of right-hand bay."
"INTERIOR remodelled."

evidence:-   old advertisement:- Linton 1852
placename:-  Sun Inn
source data:-   Advertisement, for Joseph Fearon, Globe Hotel, Whitehaven, for Mary Fleming, King's Head Inn, Broughton in Furness, for T Smith, Sun Hotel, Ulverston, and for Mr Steel, Railway Hotel, Drigg, Cumberland, published by Whittaker and Co, London, and by R Gibson and Son and by Callander and Dixon, Whitehaven, Cumberland, 1852.
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Advertisments p.13 in A Handbook of the Whitehaven and Furness Railway, by John Linton. 
item:-  Armitt Library : A1158.26
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