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| Hydropathic Establishment, Grasmere | ||
| Hydropathic Establishment | ||
| locality:- | St Oswald's | |
| locality:- | Grasmere | |
| civil parish:- | Lakes (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | hospital (?) | |
| coordinates:- | NY336075 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY3307 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY30 | |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Martineau 1855 |
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| 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. goto sourcePage 50:- "... and plunge down Red Bank, ... at the corner, where the road turns to the village, the cluster of lodging-houses, called St. Oswald's, where the Hydropathic Establishment struggled on for a time, but found the Westmorland winters too long for invalids." |
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