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| High Street roman road | ||
| High Street | ||
| site name:- | High Street | |
| civil parish:- | Barton (formerly Westmorland) | |
| civil parish:- | Martindale (formerly Westmorland) | |
| civil parish:- | Patterdale (formerly Westmorland) | |
| civil parish:- | Shap Rural (formerly Westmorland) | |
| civil parish:- | Lakes (formerly Westmorland) | |
| civil parish:- | Bampton (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | roman road | |
| locality type:- | road | |
| 10Km square:- | NY41 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY42 | |
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 BQL01.jpg On Park Fell, Troutbeck, called Scot Rake. (taken 16.4.2009)  Click to enlarge BXP24.jpg The long level ridge for the roman road. (taken 27.10.2012) |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 13 2) placename:- High Street |
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| 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. OS County Series (Wmd 13 9) OS County Series (Wmd 20 1) |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 19 16) placename:- Scot Rake |
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| 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. |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Martineau 1855 |
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| source data:- | Guide book, A Complete Guide to the English Lakes, by Harriet
Martineau, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland,
and by Whittaker and Co, London, 1855; published 1855-76. goto sourcePage 33:- "... The singular valley of Troutbeck was once a wooded basin, where the terrified Britons took refuge from the Romans, while the latter were making their great road from Kendal to Penrith. That road actually ran along the very ridge of the" goto sourcePage 34:- "Troutbeck hills, as any one may see who will climb the mountain called, for this reason, High Street. What a sight it must have been - the pioneers felling the trees, and paving the way, and the soldiers following, with their armour and weapons gleaming in the sun, while the trembling natives cowered in the forest below,- listening now to the blows of the workmen, and now to the warlike music of the troops, marching up from Kendal! ..." |
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 BQL02.jpg On Park Fell, Troutbeck, called Scot Rake. (taken 16.4.2009)  BQL03.jpg On Park Fell, Troutbeck. (taken 16.4.2009)  BQL04.jpg On Park Fell, Troutbeck. (taken 16.4.2009) |
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 BNP11.jpg On High Street, Patterdale (taken 18.4.2007)  BYE35.jpg On High Street, Patterdale (taken 10.4.2013)  Click to enlarge CDL90.jpg From Bannerdale. (taken 30.6.2015) |
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