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| post box, Meathop (2) | ||
| locality:- | Meathop | |
| civil parish:- | Meathop and Ulpha (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | post box (wall) | |
| coordinates:- | SD435802 | |
| 1Km square:- | SD4380 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD48 | |
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 BZF08.jpg (taken 4.2000) courtesy of Dori and Geoff  BZF09.jpg (taken 4.2000) courtesy of Dori and Geoff |
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| The box is set into the wall which houses the gates leading into the estate at the
site of the old hospital. Meathop Hospital was a tuberculosis sanatorium and the main
building in the village; it is now a private housing development of pleasant one-storey
buildings, mainly holiday and retirement homes. |
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