The Rising Sun

Gone

Closed by the Board, 1916

There now

A house

Address

Cumrew

Where exactly

Placed from the Ordnance Survey grid reference, NY5444550850, in Historic England's gazetteer of the scheme's premises. The building's use in 2018: residential.

At Cumrew, under the fells south of How Mill, closed by the Board in 1916. The name stayed on the building. In June 1927 a Cumrew rabbit catcher, Richard Richardson, fined at Brampton for keeping a dog without a licence, gave his address as Rising Sun House.

Sources

• Historic England, Countering the 'deadliest of foes': public houses of the Central Control Board and the State Management Scheme, 1916-73 (Clare Howard, Research Report 89-2018): Appendix C, gazetteer of scheme premises
• The Cumberland News, 11 June 1927, p. 15: Brampton Police Court (via newspapers.com)

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• The Duke Of Cumberland

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• String of Horses Inn

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  5.5 kmaway

• Fox & Pheasant Inn

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  6.0 kmaway