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| Grange Hotel, Grange-over-Sands | ||
| Grange Hotel | ||
| Rigg's Grange Hotel | ||
| locality:- | Grange-over-Sands | |
| civil parish:- | Grange-over-Sands (formerly Lancashire) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | inn (hotel) | |
| coordinates:- | SD41227836 | |
| 1Km square:- | SD4178 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD47 | |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Lan 17 4) placename:- Grange Hotel |
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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. |
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| evidence:- | old drawing:- Aspland 1840s-60s |
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| source data:- | Drawing, pencil, Grange Hotel, Grange-over-Sands, Lancashire, by Theophilus Lindsey
Aspland, about 1868-69. click to enlargeAS0605.jpg page number "4" item:- Armitt Library : 2008.61.5 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old photograph:- Philip/Wilson 1890s |
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| source data:- | Advertisement from The Concise Series of Guides No.1, The English Lake District, published
about 1895. click to enlargePW1A02.jpg Guide book published by George Philip and Son, 32 Fleet Street, London, Philip, Son and Nephew, Liverpool, Lancashire, and Titus Wilson, Kendal, Westmorland, about 1895. item:- JandMN : 58 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:- Grange Hotel |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "GRANGE HOTEL / / STATION SQUARE / GRANGE OVER SANDS / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 460550 / SD4122378356" |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "FORMER STABLE BLOCK TO GRANGE HOTEL / / STATION SQUARE / GRANGE OVER SANDS / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 460551 / SD4123178222" |
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| hearsay:- |
Opened 1866, financed by the Furness Railway. The first manager was Thomas Rigg who
began a charabanc service from here. |
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| The hotel included Rigg's Refreshment Rooms, known as the Cocoa Rooms as this was
the cheapest drink available. |
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| Paley and Austin series | ||
| person:- | architect : Paley, Edward G |
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| date:- | 1866 |
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| New building. |
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