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Royal Hotel, Bowness-on-Windermere
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Royal Hotel
Ullock's Royal Hotel
locality:-   Bowness-on-Windermere
civil parish:-   Windermere (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   inn
coordinates:-   SD40289693 (?) 
1Km square:-   SD4096
10Km square:-   SD49
references:-   Martineau 1855
evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 32 11) 
placename:-  Royal Hotel
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.
evidence:-   old advertisement:- Martineau 1855
placename:-  Ullock's Royal Hotel
placename:-  Royal Hotel
placename:-  White Lion
source data:-   Advertisment for Ullock's Royal Hotel 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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Advertisement pages at the end of the guide. 
item:-  JandMN : 192.5
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evidence:-   old text:- Martineau 1855
placename:-  Ullock's Royal 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 ... 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. Ullock's Hotel, called Royal since the visit of Queen Adelaide in 1840, makes up between seventy and eighty beds. Close at hand us a little museum, where the birds of the district may be seen, exceedingly well stuffed and arranged by Mr. Armstrong, a waiter at the hotel. ..."
evidence:-   old text:- Martineau 1855
placename:-  Ullock's Royal Hotel
source data:-   Print, engraving, Ullock's Royal Hotel, Bowness, Windermere, drawn by Theophilus Lindsey Aspland, engraved by W Banks, Edinburgh, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, and by Whittaker and Co, London, 1855.
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Plate, tipped in with an advertisement for the hotel:- 
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Print, engraving, Ullock's Royal Hotel, Bowness, Windermere, drawn by L Aspland, engraved by W Banks, Edinburgh, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, and by Whittaker and Co, London, 1855.  "L Aspland Delt. / W Banks Sc Edinr. / ULLOCK'S ROYAL HOTEL, BOWNESS, WINDERMERE."
item:-  Armitt Library : A1159.20
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evidence:-   old map:- Prior 1874 map 1
placename:-  Royal 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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"Royal Hotel"
block; inn 
item:-  private collection : 133.1
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evidence:-   old advertisement:- Jenkinson 1875 B
placename:-  Royal Hotel, The
source data:-   Advertisements for Mrs Scott, The Royal Hotel, Bowness-on-Windermere, Westmorland, ... published by Edward Stanford, 55 Charing Cross, London, 1875 edn 1884?
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Adverts p.15 at the back of Jenkinson's Smaller Practical Guide to Carlisle, Gilsland, Roman Wall and Neighbourhood. 
item:-  Armitt Library : A1717.10
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evidence:-   old advertisement:- Atkinson 1847 (5th edn 1850) 
placename:-  Ullock's Royal Hotel
source data:-   Advertisement for W Bownass at Ullock's Royal Hotel, Bowness-on-Windermere, Westmorland, 1850.
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At the end of a Handbook to the English Lakes, 5th edn. 
item:-  Armitt Library : A1144.22
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