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Crown Inn, Bowness-on-Windermere
Crown Inn
locality:-   Bowness-on-Windermere
civil parish:-   Windermere (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   inn
1Km square:-   SD4096
10Km square:-   SD49
references:-   Otley 1823
evidence:-   descriptive text:- Otley 1823 (5th edn 1834) 
item:-  boat
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 98:-  "BOWNESS"
"... the Crown is pleasantly situated upon a rising ground at the end of the village."
evidence:-   descriptive text:- Ford 1839 (3rd edn 1843) 
placename:-  Crown
source data:-   Guide book, A Description of Scenery in the Lake District, by Rev William Ford, published by Charles Thurnam, Carlisle, by W Edwards, 12 Ave Maria Lane, Charles Tilt, Fleet Street, William Smith, 113 Fleet Street, London, by Currie and Bowman, Newcastle, by Bancks and Co, Manchester, by Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh, and by Sinclair, Dumfries, 1839.
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Page 28:-  "..."
"[Bowness] ... much frequented by tourists, who find excellent accommodation, as well as in lodgings as in two inns, the White Lion and the Crown. ..."
evidence:-   old advertisement:- Atkinson 1847 (5th edn 1850) 
placename:-  Crown Hotel
item:-  char; potted char; crown
source data:-   Advertisement for T Cloudsdale at the Crown Hotel, Bowness-on-Windermere, Westmorland, 1850.
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At the end of a Handbook to the English Lakes, 5th edn. 
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item:-  Armitt Library : A1144.19
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evidence:-   old advertisement:- Martineau 1855
placename:-  Crown Hotel
source data:-   Advertisment for Cloudsdale's Crown Hotel, Bowness in A Complete Guide to the Lake District of England, by Harriet Martineau published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, 4th edn 1871.
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Added at the end of the guide. 
item:-  JandMN : 192.5
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evidence:-   old text:- Martineau 1855
placename:-  Crown Hotel
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.
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Page 10:-  "[Bowness] ... The two great inns, however, are in airy situations,- the garden platform of Ullock's Royal Hotel overlooking the gardens that slope down to the shore; and the Crown being on a hill which commands the whole place. These inns are both extremely well managed; and it is for the traveller to say whether their charges, which are uniform, justify a complaint which has been made, (we think unreasonably as regards the Lake District in general) of high prices. During the season, which extends from May to November, the charges are two shillings for breakfast, (including meat, fish, &c.,) two shillings and sixpence for dinner; and one shilling and sixpence for tea. A private sitting-room is charged two shillings and sixpence per day. ... The Crown has ten private sitting rooms, and makes up ninety beds. Nothing can well exceed the beauty of the view from its garden seats."
evidence:-   old map:- Prior 1874 map 1
placename:-  Crown Hotel
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving or lithograph? Winander Mere, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, 1874.
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"Crown Hotel / CROWN HOTEL BOWNESS"
block; inn, and a vignette view 
item:-  private collection : 133.1
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evidence:-   old advertisement:- Bemrose 1881
placename:-  Crown Hotel
source data:-   Advertisement for Cloudsdale, Crown Hotel, Windermere, Westmorland, published by Bemrose and Sons, 23 Old Bailey, London and Derby, by A B Moss, Carlisle, Cumberland, and by T Wilson, Kendal, Westmorland, about 1881.
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Included in a Handy Guide to the English Lakes and Shap Spa. 
item:-  JandMN : 455.37
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evidence:-   possibly old print:- Martineau 1855
placename:-  Crown Hotel
source data:-   Print, engraving, Windermere from the Crown Hotel, by J Harwood, 26 Fenchurch Street, London, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, and by Whittaker and Co, London, 1855.
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Tipped in with an advertisement for the hotel, in A Complete Guide to the English Lakes, by Harriet Martineau. 
printed at bottom, left, right, centre:-  "J. Harwood 26 Fenchurch St. London. / No.228. / Windermere from the Crown Hotel."
item:-  Armitt Library : A1159.21
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