Old Cumbria Gazetteer
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| placename:- | Keswick Station | |
| site name:- | Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith Railway | |
| locality:- | Keswick | |
| parish |
Keswick parish, once in
Cumberland
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| county:- | Cumbria | |
| railway station; station | ||
| coordinates:- |
NY27062375 | |
| 10Km square:- |
NY22
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| Opened 1865; closed 1972. | ||
| 1Km square | NY2723 | |
![]() Keswick Station -- Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith Railway -- Keswick -- Keswick -- Cumbria / -- 19.9.2006 | ||
![]() Keswick Station -- Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith Railway -- Keswick -- Keswick -- Cumbria / -- 19.9.2006 | ||
| old map:- |
OS County Series (Cmd 64 2)
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| 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. | ||
| Keswick Station / M.P. / Crane / ... / Railway Hotel / ... | ||
| placename:- | Keswick Station | |
| railway station; railway sidings | ||
| date:- | 1890=1899 | |
| period:- | 19th century, late; 1890s | |
| database:- |
Listed Buildings 2010
Listed Buildings 2010 | |
| courtesy of English Heritage | ||
| KESWICK RAILWAY STATION BUILDING AND PLATFORM / / STATION ROAD / KESWICK / ALLERDALE / CUMBRIA / II / 71801 / NY2706623769 | ||
| courtesy of English Heritage | ||
| Now disused. Built 1860's for the Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith Railway Company. Lakeland green stone with green slate roof. Two 2-storeyed gabled wings joined by canopied entrance in middle with half-dormer above. Sash windows with sandstone dressings. Platform facade has 3 gables, and very fine glass canopy over the whole platform (about 240 ft) consisting of about 20 gabled bays (hipped on rails side), with cusped lower edging, supported on iron columns and iron arches with delicate iron tracery in spandrels. Stone paving to platform. | ||
| placename:- | Keswick Railway Station | |
| district:- | Allerdale | |
| listed building | ||
| coordinates:- |
NY27062376 | |
| date:- | 2010 | |
| period:- | 2010s | |
| old print:- | ||
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| Print, uncoloured engraving, Scott's Lodore Hotel, Derwentwater, published by J Scott, Lodore Hotel, Cumberland, | ||
| Viewed from the lake side. The reverse side has an advertisement for the hotel:- | ||
| ... An Omnibus meets the Trains at the Keswick Railway Station, and also runs in connection with Rigg's Royal Mail Coaches from Windermere. ... | ||
| printed at bottom:- | ||
| Scott's Lodore Hotel, Derwentwater | ||
| placename:- | Keswick Railway Station | |
| date:- | 1870=1879 | |
| period:- | 19th century, late | |
| photographs | ||
| Keswick Station -- Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith Railway -- Keswick -- Keswick -- Cumbria / -- 12.12.2007 | |
| Keswick Station -- Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith Railway -- Keswick -- Keswick -- Cumbria / -- Platform canopy. -- 1.10.2011 | |
| Keswick Station -- Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith Railway -- Keswick -- Keswick -- Cumbria / -- Cast iron. -- 1.10.2011 | |
| Keswick Station -- Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith Railway -- Keswick -- Keswick -- Cumbria / -- Window. -- 1.10.2011 | |
| photographs | ||
| Keswick Station -- Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith Railway -- Keswick -- Keswick -- Cumbria / -- 9.7.2009 -- courtesy of Keswick Museum. | |
| Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008 | ||
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