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Limekiln, Bewcastle
Limekiln
Limekiln Inn
locality:-   Shopford
locality:-   Bewcastle
civil parish:-   Bewcastle (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
locality type:-   inn (ex) 
coordinates:-   NY56507446
1Km square:-   NY5674
10Km square:-   NY57
SummaryText:-   The passage between the houses was the road to the ford before the bridge was built.

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BSE56.jpg (taken 19.2.2010)  
evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 8 6) 
placename:-  Limekiln 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.
evidence:-   probably old text:- Gents Mag
source data:-   Magazine, The Gentleman's Magazine or Monthly Intelligencer or Historical Chronicle, published by Edward Cave under the pseudonym Sylvanus Urban, and by other publishers, London, monthly from 1731 to 1922.
image G7540505, button  goto source
Gentleman's Magazine 1754 p.505  "... [journey to Christianbury Crag]"
"I took a guide with me to Beu-Castle, ... I discovered a hedge alehouse, which I knew must serve me for an inn, but when I entered it I was not more disgusted with the dirt and darkness of the room into which I was introduced, the floor of bare earth, and the bed less eligible than clean straw, than I was with the noisy mirth of some boors who had been drinking till the were drunk. However, as I knew it was bootless to complain, I appeared, as well as I could, to be content, that I might not displease my host. The clergyman, indeed, was so obliging as to offer me his room at the parsonage, but as I was unwilling to give trouble, I declined it."
"In the evening I acquainted mine host with the intent of my journey, and at my request he procured me another guide, who undertook to conduct me up the mountain to the craiggs. When I rose at four o'clock the next morning, I found him ready. ..."
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