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Canal Cottage, Hincaster
Canal Cottage
site name:-   Lancaster Canal
Street:-   Sedgewick Road
civil parish:-   Hincaster (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
locality type:-   canal building
coordinates:-   SD50858506
1Km square:-   SD5085
10Km square:-   SD58


photograph
BLU96.jpg (taken 9.4.2006)  

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Canal Cottage
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"CANAL COTTAGE / / SEDGEWICK ROAD / HINCASTER / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 456599 / SD5086785047"

hearsay:-  
The canal man who lived at the cottage measured the water level each day and if necessary sent word, by the postman, to Killington Reservoir, that water was needed to top up the level.

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