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John Peel Cottage, Caldbeck
John Peel Cottage
locality:-   Greenrigg
civil parish:-   Caldbeck (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   NY29713872
1Km square:-   NY2938
10Km square:-   NY23
references:-   Listed Buildings 2010


photograph
CDY79.jpg (taken 18.9.2015)  
photograph
CDY80.jpg (taken 18.9.2015)  

evidence:-   probably old print:- Bradley 1901
source data:-   Print, uncoloured lithograph, John Peel's Home, John Peel Cottage, Caldbeck, Cumberland, by Joseph Pennell after A G Bradley, published by Macmillan and Co, London, 1901.
image  click to enlarge
BRL167.jpg
On page 253 of Highways and Byways in the Lake District, by A G Bradley. 
printed at lower left:-  "JPennell / from a sketch / by A G Bradley"
printed at bottom:-  "John Peel's Home."
item:-  JandMN : 464.67
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  John Peel Cottage
item:-  date stone (1777)
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"JOHN PEEL COTTAGE AND ADJOINING BARN / / / CALDBECK / ALLERDALE / CUMBRIA / II / 72377 / NY2971138728"


photograph
BPU46.jpg  'Greenrigg, Caldbeck', home of John Peel when young.
(taken 7.11.2008)  courtesy of the landlord, Oddfellows Arms
Various sources about John Peel provide various locations of birthplace and early home.
John Peel was:-
"terrible lang in t' leg and lish with a fine girt neb and grey eyes that could see for ivver."

personal
person:-   huntsman
 : Peel, John
place:-   home
date:-   1777

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