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Wordsworth Court, Bowness-on-Windermere
Wordsworth Court
Bowness Grammar School
locality:-   Bowness-on-Windermere
civil parish:-   Windermere (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
locality type:-   school (ex) 
coordinates:-   SD40389683
1Km square:-   SD4096
10Km square:-   SD49


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BWE48.jpg (taken 4.4.2012)  
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BWE49.jpg  Plaque:-
"THIS MEDALLION AND TABLET WERER PLACED HERE [AT] THE EXPENSE OF / INHABITANTS OF THE TOWNSHIP[S] OF APPLETHWAITE AND UNDER[MILBECK] / TO TESTIFY THEIR GRATITUDE TO JOHN BOLTON, ESQR. / ... THIS SCHOOL HOUSE ..." (taken 4.4.2012)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 32 11) 
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.
"Free Grammar School"

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