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Low Bridge Inn, Kentmere
Low Bridge Inn
locality:-   Kentmere
civil parish:-   Kentmere (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   inn (once) 
coordinates:-   NY45790402
1Km square:-   NY4504
10Km square:-   NY40

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 27 10) 
placename:-  Low Bridge Inn
placename:-  Bridge Inn, Low
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.

hearsay:-  
There was an inn here for 300 years, till 1897. It lost its license because it was 'too far from police supervision'. The case, Sharpe v Wakefield, went on appeal to the House of Lords, and established the absolute discretion of magistrates to grant or refuse a license.

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