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| Brown Cow Inn, Hawkshead | ||
| Brown Cow Inn | ||
| Street:- | Main Street | |
| locality:- | Hawkshead | |
| civil parish:- | Hawkshead (formerly Lancashire) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | inn (gone?) | |
| coordinates:- | SD35249813 | |
| 1Km square:- | SD3598 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD39 | |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Lan 5 2) placename:- Brown Cow Inn |
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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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| hearsay:- |
The landlord here had a giant clog, described in the Ambleside Herald, 26 June 1880:- |
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| "It is a proper monster. After measuring it we found it to be nearly twenty inches
long, over eight inches wide at the bottom, sixteen inches from welt to welt across
the front, twenty-two inches round the back from tab to tab, and the length of the
heel seven inches. ... We were informed that the wearer of this clog had been dead
some years. He used to follow mole catching, and lived to a great age." |
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