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Golden Lion, Whitehaven
Golden Lion
Golden Lion House
Street:-   Market Place
locality:-   Whitehaven
civil parish:-   Whitehaven (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   inn (ex) 
locality type:-   restaurant
coordinates:-   NX97201806
1Km square:-   NX9718
10Km square:-   NX91


photograph
BWB71.jpg (taken 15.3.2012)  

evidence:-   descriptive text:- Ford 1839 (3rd edn 1843) 
placename:-  Golden Lion
source data:-   Guide book, A Description of Scenery in the Lake District, by Rev William Ford, published by Charles Thurnam, Carlisle, by W Edwards, 12 Ave Maria Lane, Charles Tilt, Fleet Street, William Smith, 113 Fleet Street, London, by Currie and Bowman, Newcastle, by Bancks and Co, Manchester, by Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh, and by Sinclair, Dumfries, 1839.
image FD01P173, button  goto source
Page 173:-  "[Whitehaven] ... inns, Black Lion, Golden Lion, and Globe."

evidence:-   old advertisement:- Linton 1852
placename:-  Golden Lion Hotel
source data:-   Advertisement, ... for Mrs F Irwin, Golden Lion Hotel, Market Place, ... Whitehaven, Cumberland, published by Whittaker and Co, London, and by R Gibson and Son and by Callander and Dixon, Whitehaven, Cumberland, 1852.
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LN1A03.jpg
Advertisments p.3 in A Handbook of the Whitehaven and Furness Railway, by John Linton. 
item:-  Armitt Library : A1158.16
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evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Golden Lion Hotel
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"GOLDEN LION HOTEL / 6 / MARKET PLACE / WHITEHAVEN / COPELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 76011 / NX9720718063"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"3 storeys. Corner pilasters, cornice, 4 sash windows, panelled door in doorcase with fluted pilasters, partly covered by an added porch."

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