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Britannia Inn

inn in Lakes, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England, UK

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ26537761 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Britannia Inn is a public house and inn in the English village of Elterwater, Cumbria. Dating to the 17th century, it is a Grade II listed building.

The building is in roughcast stone with a slate roof and two storeys. On the front is a small gabled porch, and the windows are sashes. To the left is a recessed bay with a bay window in the angle, and at the rear is a gabled wing.

Editorial summary

“Britannia Inn” enters the record as inn in Lakes, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England, UK. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Britannia, Lakes and Westmorland can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 76-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Britannia, Lakes and Westmorland.
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Why this record matters

“Britannia Inn” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Britannia, Lakes and Westmorland provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q26537761. Authority coordinates are 54.434, -3.038. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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This entry incorporates text from “Britannia Inn” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.