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road, Kirkby Lonsdale to Settle
Kirkby Lonsdale to Settle
Settle to Kirkby Lonsdale
A65
civil parish:-   Kirkby Lonsdale (formerly Westmorland)
civil parish:-   Casterton (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality:-   Settle
county:-   North Yorkshire
locality type:-   road route
10Km square:-   SD67
10Km square:-   SD77
10Km square:-   SD76
10Km square:-   SD86
evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Yrk 95) 
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.
"KEIGHLEY AND KENDAL TRUST"
along road 
evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Lan 20) 
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.
"KIRKBY LONSDALE AND MILNTHORPE TRUST"
along road 
evidence:-   old map:- Bowen and Kitchin 1760
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, A New Map of the Counties of Cumberland and Westmoreland Divided into their Respective Wards, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Emanuel Bowen and Thomas Kitchin et al, published by T Bowles, Robert Sayer, and John Bowles, London, 1760.
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double line, dotted 
item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.14.10
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evidence:-   old map:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd) 
source data:-   Map, 4 sheets, The County of Westmoreland, scale 1 inch to 1 mile, surveyed 1768, and engraved and published by Thomas Jefferys, London, 1770.
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"To Settle"
double line; road, bold, main road, with mile numbers 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
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evidence:-   descriptive text:- West 1778 (11th edn 1821) 
source data:-   Guide book, A Guide to the Lakes, by Thomas West, published by William Pennington, Kendal, Cumbria once Westmorland, and in London, 1778 to 1821.
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Tour to the Caves in the West Riding of Yorkshire, late 18th century 
Page 244:-  "..."
"We mounted our horses at the bridge [Kirkby Lonsdale], about eleven o'clock, having ordered them down thither in order to save half an hour in going up the town for them. We travelled near the bottoms of the mountains, on the side of Lonsdale, along the turnpike-road, about an hour, being in three counties in that short interval, Westmorland, Lancashire, and Yorkshire, and amidst a variety of entertaining prospects. The number of small carts laden with coals, and each dragged by one sorry horse, that we met, was surprising to a stranger. Many of the smaller farmers, betwixt Kirkby-Lonsdale and Kendal, earn their bread with carrying coals, during most part of the year, from the pits at Ingleton, Black-Burton, or properly Burton-in-Lonsdale, to Kendal and the neighbouring places, for fuel, and burning lime, in order to manure their land. ..."
"After we had got about six miles from Kirkby-Lonsdale, to a public-house called Thornton Church-stile, we stopped ..."
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Page 253:-  "..."
"Early next morning we set off [from Ingleton] for Ingleton-fells, or Chapel-in-the-Dale, along the turnpike-road leading to Askrig and Richmond. ..."
evidence:-   old map:- Cary 1789 (edn 1805) 
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Westmoreland, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Cary, London, 1789; edition 1805.
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"To Settle"
double line, bold light, numbered miles; main road 
item:-  JandMN : 129
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evidence:-   road map:- Cary 1790 (Wmd/edn 1792) 
source data:-   Road map, hand coloured engraving, Westmoreland, scale about 11.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Cary, 181 Strand, London, 1790, edn 1792.
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"to London by Settle"
double line 
item:-  JandMN : 44
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evidence:-   road map:- Cary 1790 (Lan/edn 1792) 
source data:-   Road map, hand coloured engraving, Lancashire, scale about 18 miles to 1 inch, by John Cary, 181 Strand, London, 1790, edn 1792.
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"to Settle"
double line 
item:-  JandMN : 418
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evidence:-   road book:- Cary 1798 (2nd edn 1802) 
source data:-   Road book, itineraries, Cary's New Itinerary, by John Cary, 181 Strand, London, 2nd edn 1802.
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page 333-334  "[LONDON to Kendal, through Halifax]"
part of  "KENDAL to Mansfield"
part of reverse route 
item:-  JandMN : 228.1
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evidence:-   road book:- Cary 1798 (2nd edn 1802) 
source data:-   Road book, itineraries, Cary's New Itinerary, by John Cary, 181 Strand, London, 2nd edn 1802.
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page 795-796  "[YORK to Skipton and Kirkby Lonsdale.]"
part of 
item:-  JandMN : 228.2
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evidence:-   old map:- Cooke 1802
source data:-   Map, Westmoreland ie Westmorland, scale about 12 miles to 1 inch, by George Cooke, 1802, published by Sherwood, Jones and Co, Paternoster Road, London, 1824.
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"to London by Settle / to Askrig"
double line, light dark solid; road 
item:-  Hampshire Museums : FA2000.62.4
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evidence:-   old map:- Cooke 1802
source data:-   Map, West Riding of Yorkshire, ie West Yorkshire, scale about 21 miles to 1 inch, by George Cooke, 1802, bound in Gray's New Book of Roads, 1824, published by Sherwood, Jones and Co, Paternoster Road, London, 1824.
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"to Kirkby Lonsdale"
double line, light dark solid; road 
item:-  Hampshire Museums : FA2000.62.12
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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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evidence:-   old map:- Wallis 1810 (Wmd) 
source data:-   Road map, Westmoreland, scale about 19 miles to 1 inch, by James Wallis, 77 Berwick Street, Soho, 1810, published by W Lewis, Finch Lane, London, 1835?
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"to Settle"
double line, light bold; 'Turnpike Road' 
item:-  JandMN : 63
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evidence:-   gradient diagram:- Gall and Inglis 1890s-1900s (Roads) 
source data:-   Contour Road Book of England, Northern Division, by Harry R G Inglis, published by Gall and Inglis, 25 Paternoster Square, London and Edinburgh, 1898.
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Itinerary, with gradient diagram, route 103, Skipton to Kendal, Yorkshire and Westmorland, 1898. 
item:-  JandMN : 763.7
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 Act of Parliament
places:-    Kirkby Lonsdale
 Ingleton, North Yorkshire
 Clapham, North Yorkshire
 Giggleswick, North Yorkshire
 Settle, North Yorkshire
places:-  
SD61967791 milestone, Casterton (3) (Casterton)
SD61207849 milestone, Kirkby Lonsdale (2) (Kirkby Lonsdale) L
SD75206845 Old Toll Bar ()
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