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Backbarrow, Haverthwaite
Backbarrow
civil parish:-   Haverthwaite (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   SD357847
1Km square:-   SD3584
10Km square:-   SD38
evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Lan 12 2) 
placename:-  Backbarrow
source data:-   Maps, 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.
evidence:-   old map:- West 1784 map
placename:-  Backbarrow
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, A Map of the Lakes in Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, engraved by Paas, 53 Holborn, London, about 1784.
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"Backbarrow / Furnace"
item:-  Armitt Library : A1221.1
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evidence:-   old map:- Otley 1818
placename:-  Backbarrow
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, The District of the Lakes, Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Jonathan Otley, 1818, engraved by J and G Menzies, Edinburgh, Scotland, published by Jonathan Otley, Keswick, Cumberland, et al, 1833.
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item:-  JandMN : 48.1
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evidence:-   descriptive text:- Otley 1823 (5th edn 1834) 
item:-  cotton; iron; pyroligneous acid; gunpowder
source data:-   Guide book, A Concise Description of the English Lakes, the mountains in their vicinity, and the roads by which they may be visited, with remarks on the mineralogy and geology of the district, by Jonathan Otley, published by the author, Keswick, Cumberland now Cumbria, by J Richardson, London, and by Arthur Foster, Kirkby Lonsdale, Cumbria, 1823; published 1823-49, latterly as the Descriptive Guide to the English Lakes.
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Page 95:-  "... Backbarrow, where it [the road] crosses the river by a bridge situated among manufactories of cotton, of iron, of pyroligneous acid, and of gunpowder. ..."
evidence:-   old map:- Garnett 1850s-60s H
placename:-  Backbarrow
source data:-   Map of the English Lakes, in Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, 1850s-60s.
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"Backbarrow"
blocks, settlement 
item:-  JandMN : 82.1
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evidence:-   old map:- Post Office 1850s-1900s
placename:-  Backbarrow
source data:-   Post road maps, General Post Office Circulation Map for England and Wales, for the General Post Office, London, 1850s-1900s.
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"Backbarrow"
map date 1909 
evidence:-   old map:- Post Office 1850s-1900s
placename:-  Backbarrow
source data:-   Post road maps, General Post Office Circulation Map for England and Wales, for the General Post Office, London, 1850s-1900s.
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"Backbarrow"
map date 1892 
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 images courtesy of the British Postal Museum and Hampshire CC Museums
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