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| Old Post Office, Winster | ||
| locality:- | Winster | |
| civil parish:- | Crook (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | buildings | |
| locality type:- | post office (ex) | |
| coordinates:- | SD41639397 | |
| 1Km square:- | SD4193 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD49 | |
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![]() BRL28.jpg (taken 18.9.2009) ![]() BRL29.jpg Date stone:- "1600 / E B / 1950" (taken 18.9.2009)  | 
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 37 4)  placename:- Compston House  | 
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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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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 item:- date stone (1600)  | 
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "POST OFFICE / / / CROOK / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 76399 / SD4162293970"  | 
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| evidence:- | old postcard:-  | 
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| source data:- | Postcard, b/w photograph, Post Office and Head of Winster, Crook, Westmorland, published
                  by Simcoe and Son, Kendal, Westmorland, about 1915.   click to enlargePH0068.jpg printed at lower left, right:- "Post Office & Head of Winster. / Simcoe &Son Kendal" stamped at rev:- "WINDERMERE / 9.30[ ] / 20 SE[ ] / 15" item:- private collection : 279 Image © see bottom of page  | 
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![]() BRL30.jpg Porch. (taken 18.9.2009)  | 
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