Doorway to Cockett's Hotel
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Doorway to Cockett's Hotel
Image: © Russel Wills Taken: 9 Dec 2018
Cockett's was formerly an Inn run by Widow Harrison, the building was bought by the Quakers in 1754 as a rest house for friends before or after meetings at the nearby meeting house, at a time when friends travelled many miles to attend the meetings and needed somewhere to rest and eat. A condition of the occupancy at that time was that penniless travellers had to be taken in. The inscription over the door 'God being with us, who can be against A.T.F' The initials being of a certain Thomas Arthur Fawcett a Quaker.
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Image Location
Latitude
54.30427
Longitude
-2.199282