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Hydropathic Establishment, Grasmere
Hydropathic Establishment
locality:-   St Oswald's
locality:-   Grasmere
civil parish:-   Lakes (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   hospital (?) 
coordinates:-   NY336075
1Km square:-   NY3307
10Km square:-   NY30

evidence:-   old text:- Martineau 1855
source data:-   Guide book, A Complete Guide to the English Lakes, by Harriet Martineau, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, and by Whittaker and Co, London, 1855; published 1855-76.
image MNU1P050, button  goto source
Page 50:-  "... and plunge down Red Bank, ... at the corner, where the road turns to the village, the cluster of lodging-houses, called St. Oswald's, where the Hydropathic Establishment struggled on for a time, but found the Westmorland winters too long for invalids."

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