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Sun, Pooley Bridge
Sun Inn
Street:-   High Street
locality:-   Pooley Bridge
civil parish:-   Barton (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   inn
coordinates:-   NY47162448
1Km square:-   NY4724
10Km square:-   NY42

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BLN36.jpg  Innsign with a view of Ullswater.
(taken 4.1.2006)  
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BLN35.jpg (taken 4.1.2006)  
evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 7 6) 
placename:-  Sun Hotel
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 text:- Clarke 1787
placename:-  Sun
item:-  boat; rowing boat
source data:-   Guide book, A Survey of the Lakes of Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire, written and published by James Clarke, Penrith, Cumberland, and in London etc, 1787; published 1787-93.
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Page 25:-  "[Pooley Bridge] ... boats kept by Edward Richardson, at the sign of the Sun, ... Richardson's boats are neat and in good repair, ..."
evidence:-   perhaps descriptive text:- Otley 1823 (5th edn 1834) 
item:-  boat; horse; jaunting car
source data:-   Guide book, A Concise Description of the English Lakes, the mountains in their vicinity, and the roads by which they may be visited, with remarks on the mineralogy and geology of the district, by Jonathan Otley, published by the author, Keswick, Cumberland now Cumbria, by J Richardson, London, and by Arthur Foster, Kirkby Lonsdale, Cumbria, 1823; published 1823-49, latterly as the Descriptive Guide to the English Lakes.
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Page 10:-  "..."
"There is a comfortable inn at Pooley Bridge, on the foot of the lake; ... furnish boats upon the lake: and the long wanted medium of land conveyance is now in part supplied;- horses and jaunting cars can be had at Pooley Bridge; ..."
evidence:-   old advertisement:- Philip/Wilson 1890s
placename:-  Sun Hotel
source data:-   Advertisement from The Concise Series of Guides No.1, The English Lake District, published about 1895.
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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
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evidence:-   old advertisement:- Ullswater Steamers 1900s (edn 1903) 
placename:-  Sun Hotel
source data:-   Advertisements, ... for Mrs Jacques, Sun Hotel, Pooley Bridge, Barton, Westmorland ... published in a guide book by the Ullswater Steam Navigation Co, 1903.
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item:-  JandMN : 1023.44
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evidence:-   old advertisement:- Ullswater Steamers 1900s
placename:-  Sun Hotel
source data:-   Advertisement, for Mrs Jacques, Sun Hotel, Pooley Bridge, for Walter Baldry, Howtown Hotel, and for the Misses Hudson, Patterdale Hotel, Patterdale, Westmorland, published by the Ullswater Steam Navigation Co, about 1900s?
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Included in the Souvenir and Guide to Ullswater. 
item:-  JandMN : 383.8
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