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| Cherry Tree Inn, Wythburn | ||
| Cherry Tree Inn | ||
| locality:- | Wythburn | |
| civil parish:- | St John's Castlerigg and Wythburn (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | buildings | |
| locality type:- | inn | |
| coordinates:- | NY322142 (approx) | |
| 1Km square:- | NY3214 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY31 | |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 70 12) placename:- Cherry tree |
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| 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. three buildings together "Sawpit / Cherry Tree / Post Office" |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd) placename:- Cherrytree |
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| source data:- | Map, hand coloured engraving, 3x2 sheets, The County of Cumberland, scale about 1
inch to 1 mile, by Thomas Donald, engraved and published by Joseph Hodskinson, 29
Arundel Street, Strand, London, 1774. D4NY31SW.jpg "Cherrytree" inn item:- Carlisle Library : Map 2 Image © Carlisle Library |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Clarke 1787 map (Ambleside to Keswick) placename:- Cherry Tree |
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| source data:- | Map, A Map of the Roads Lakes etc between Keswick and Ambleside,
scale about 2.5 ins to 1 mile, by James Clarke, engraved by S J
Neele, 352 Strand, published by James Clarke, Penrith,
Cumberland and in London etc, 1787. CL9NY31G.jpg "Cherry-tree" item:- private collection : 10.9 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Gents Mag |
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| 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. goto sourceGentleman's Magazine 1800 p.19 "... I had stopped at the Cherry-tree, the half-way house, and learnt that the chearful old woman, spoken of in the Ramble, was dead; the other, now 84, was nursing a sickly looking infant, which she held in her withered arms with much affection, and bitterly lamented that colds had been very prevalent, and fatal to the children about them. The house looked so gloomy to what it formerly did to me, I hastened out of it, although I was feebly asked if I chose to have a bed; and soon overtook a weary old soldier, that seemed to toddle on, overcome by fatigue. He told me he had walked that morning from Whitehaven, that he was hastening to Liverpool, to chastise a captain of a ship, with the crab-stick in his hand, for cruelly treating his son when at sea. ..." |
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| evidence:- | old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s |
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| source data:- | Photograph, black and white, Cherry Tree Inn, Wythburn, St John's Castelrigg and Wythburn,
Cumberland, by Herbert Bell, photographer, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s. click to enlargeHB0841.jpg stamped at reverse:- "HERBERT BELL / Photographer / AMBLESIDE" item:- Armitt Library : ALPS504 Image © see bottom of page |
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| hearsay:- |
William Wordsworth, The Waggoner:- |
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| "Blithe souls and lightsome hearts have we, Feasting at the Cherry Tree! ... What a bustling-jostling high and low! A universal overflow! What tankards foaming from the tap! What stores of cakes in every lap!" |
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