Crown Inn
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No longer open it was operating at least from 1797 until it closed in 1868.
Mentioned in "Kirkbie-Kendal, Fragments collected relating to it's ancient Streets and Yards; Church and Castle; Houses and Inns", John F Curwen, 1901 p269
The commanding building which stands at the junction of Highgate and Stricklandgate, with its oriel window looking down to the once confined entrances into Finkle Street, was known in the coaching days as the famous “ Crown Inn.” Across the street swung a sign representing a Royal Crown in gilded colouring. The first notes that I can discover about it are, that in 1797 the Providential Benefit Society held its meetings here, that in 1798 James and Ann Jackson were “mine hosts,” and that in 1805 their lease was renewed. Here was the booking office for the light coaches run in opposition to the Royal Mail. They left at eight o’clock in the morning, three days a week, for Appleby, Orton, Temple Sowerby, Penrith, and Carlisle, being run in connection with the “Lord Wellington ” post coach, that made the journey between Carlisle and Glasgow in fourteen hours. In July, 1824, there is a record of the landlord (Howard) opening “a neat little theatre” in one of the rooms; and again, in June, 1826, I find that the new landlord (Bowman) continued the play-house. The inn was kept by a Mrs. Walker, in 1868, in which year it was closed as a public-house.
