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Hucks Bridge Inn, Fawcett Forest
Hucks Bridge Inn
Greenside View
Shapellon
locality:-   Hucks Bridge
civil parish:-   Fawcett Forest (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
locality type:-   inn (once) 
coordinates:-   NY55250399
1Km square:-   NY5503
10Km square:-   NY50


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BNH73.jpg (taken 9.3.2007)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 28) 
placename:-  Bay Horse
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.
"Bay Horse P.H."

evidence:-   probably old map:- Otley 1818
placename:-  Halfway House
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, The District of the Lakes, Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Jonathan Otley, 1818, engraved by J and G Menzies, Edinburgh, Scotland, published by Jonathan Otley, Keswick, Cumberland, et al, 1833.
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OT02NY50.jpg
item:-  JandMN : 48.1
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evidence:-   old text:- Harper 1907
placename:-  Bay Horse
source data:-   HP01p111.txt
Page 111:-  "..."
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HP0108.jpg
"BOROUGHBRIDGE, SHAP FELL."
"... Hucks Brow, the end of the first stage out of Kendal, ... Another rise of a mile and a half, and a steep descent leads to Boroughbridge, a hamlet where an ancient bridge spans a mountain stream and is neighboured by a few cottages and the "Bay Horse" inn. ..."
item:-  JandMN : 1055.9
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evidence:-   old map:- Burrow 1920s
source data:-   Road book, On the Road, Dunlop Pictorial Road Plans, volume V, strip maps with parts in Westmorland, Cumberland etc, irregular scale about 1.5 miles to 1 inch, by E J Burrow and Co, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, 1920s.
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EJB3Vg13.jpg
item:-  private collection : 17
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