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Elephant, Hesket
Elephant
civil parish:-   Hesket (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   NY45354245
1Km square:-   NY4542
10Km square:-   NY44


photograph
BWR26.jpg (taken 8.6.2012)  
photograph
BWR27.jpg  Sign.
(taken 8.6.2012)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 39 6) 
placename:-  Elephant Inn
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.
to the W are  "Mill Dam / Sluice"

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Elephant, The
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"THE ELEPHANT / / / HESKET / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 73881 / NY4535942453"

hearsay:-  
Before there was a motorway, this farm stood by the side road from Penrith to Carlisle, an alternative to the main road, now the A6. A travelling circus used this route in preference to the busier road, and on one journey an elephant died and was buried here.

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