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road, Hawkshead to Newby Bridge
Hawkshead to Newby Bridge
Newby Bridge to Hawkshead
locality:-   Hawkshead
civil parish:-   Hawkshead (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   route
locality:-   Newby Bridge
civil parish:-   Staveley-in-Cartmel (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   route

route parts:-    Hawkshead to Kendal, to Far Sawrey
 Far Sawrey to Newby Bridge

evidence:-   old text:- Clarke 1787
source data:-   Guide book, A Survey of the Lakes of Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire, written and published by James Clarke, Penrith, Cumberland, and in London etc, 1787; published 1787-93.
image CL13P151, button  goto source
Page 151:-  "..."
"Now leaving Hawkshead, we will proceed upon an agreeable ride, on very good road, towards Grathwaite, at the distance of about five miles. This is as pretty a journey as any I know, exhibiting woods, water, and lawn, dispersed by nature in the most beautiful order; the cottages remarkably well built, and commonly standing under a clump of wood, sometimes in full view, at other times hid, and again half seen. ..."

evidence:-   old map:- Laurie and Whittle 1806
source data:-   Road map, Completion of the Roads to the Lakes, scale about 10 miles to 1 inch, by Nathaniel Coltman? 1806, published by Robert H Laurie, 53 Fleet Street, London, 1834.
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bold line; 'Principal Travelling Roads' 
item:-  private collection : 18.18
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