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place:- inn, Kendal
locality:- Kendal
parish Kendal parish, once in Westmorland
county:- Cumbria
inn
coordinates:- SD514926
10Km square:- SD59

1Km square SD5192

descriptive text:- West 1778 (11th edn 1821)

Guide book, A Guide to the Lakes, by Thomas West, published by William Pennington, Kendal, Cumbria once Westmorland, and in London, 1778 to 1821.
image WS21P213, button   goto source.
Addendum; Mr Gray's Journal, 1769
Page 213:-
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... the dusk of the evening coming on, I entered Kendal almost in the dark, ... My inn promised sadly, having two wooden galleries, like Scotland, in front of it: it was indeed an ill-contrived house, but kept by civil, sensible people; so I stayed two nights with them, and fared and slept very comfortably.
date:- 1769
period:- 18th century, late; 1760s

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