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Kings Arms, Wigton
Kings Arms
Street:-   Market Place
locality:-   Wigton
civil parish:-   Wigton (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   inn
coordinates:-   NY25494843
1Km square:-   NY2548
10Km square:-   NY24
references:-   Listed Buildings 2010


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BYV74.jpg (taken 27.7.2013)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 29 5) 
placename:-  Kings Arms
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.

evidence:-   old advertisement:- 
placename:-  Kings Arms Hotel
source data:-   Advertisement, for Fred Gardham, Kings Arms Hotel and Hare and Hounds Hotel, Wigton, published by Cumberland Motor Services, Tangier Street, Whitehaven, Cumberland, about 1926.
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item:-  JandMN : 1022.44
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evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Kings Arms
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"KINGS ARMS / / MARKET PLACE / WIGTON / ALLERDALE / CUMBRIA / II / 72041 / NY2549948431"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Public House and shop. Late C18 or early C19. Painted render with V-jointed quoins on chamfered plinth. No 5 has painted stucco walls with eaves cornice and angle pilasters. Common graduated greenslate roof with coped gables. 3 storeys, 4 bays; No. 5, 2 bays. Kings Arms has 8-panel round-headed door in painted stone surround. Sash windows in round-headed painted stone surrounds. No. 5 has C20 shop windows. Sash windows above in painted stone surrounds. No. 5 included for G.V. with Kings Arms."

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