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Eltermere Hotel, Elterwater
Eltermere Hotel
locality:-   Elterwater
civil parish:-   Lakes (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   inn
coordinates:-   NY32750446
1Km square:-   NY3204
10Km square:-   NY30
references:-   Listed Buildings 2010


photograph
CAN37.jpg (taken 2.5.2014)  
photograph
CAN38.jpg  Date stone, crest and:-
"Wm Robinson / 1756" (taken 2.5.2014)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 25 12) 
placename:-  Elterwater Hall
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 map:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd) 
source data:-   Map, 4 sheets, The County of Westmoreland, scale 1 inch to 1 mile, surveyed 1768, and engraved and published by Thomas Jefferys, London, 1770.
image
J5NY30NW.jpg
"Hall"
house 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland

evidence:-   old map:- Cary 1789 (edn 1805) 
placename:-  Mill Hall
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Westmoreland, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Cary, London, 1789; edition 1805.
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CY24NY30.jpg
"Mill Hall"
house symbol; large house 
item:-  JandMN : 129
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   old print:- Green 1809
placename:-  Elter Water Hall
source data:-   Print, soft ground etching, Elter Water, Westmorland, by William Green, published by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, and Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, Paternoster Row, London, 1809.
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GN0350.jpg
Plate 50 in Seventy Eight Studies from Nature. 
printed in introductory pages to set of prints:-  "Number 50. Elter Water, in Langdale, is four miles from Ambleside. The house at the head of the lake is Elter water Hall, the property of the Rev. Mr. Byrom, but at present the residence of Mrs. Fleming. Langdale Pikes are the last mountains in this scene."
printed at bottom:-  "ELTER WATER. / Published Ambleside, Augst. 1st. 1809, by W. Green."
item:-  Armitt Library : A6637.50
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Eltermere Hotel
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"ELTERMERE HOTEL / / / LAKES / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 452277 / NY3275204468"


photograph
CAN39.jpg  Topiary.
(taken 2.5.2014)  

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