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| civil parish:- | Shap (formerly Westmorland) | |||
| county:- | Cumbria | |||
| locality type:- | locality | |||
| locality type:- | buildings | |||
| locality type:- | market town | |||
| locality type:- | selected place | |||
| coordinates:- | NY56231531 (etc) | |||
| 1Km square:- | NY5615 | |||
| 10Km square:- | NY51 | |||
| latitude; longitude:- | 2d 40.5m W; 54d 31.8m N | |||
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 14 10) placename:- Shap |
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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 14 14) |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Gough 1350s-60s placename:- Shap |
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| source data:- | Map, colour photozincograph copy, reduced size facsimile, Gough
Map of Britain, scale about 28.5 miles to 1 inch, published by
the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, 1875. click to enlargeGgh1Cm.jpg item:- JandMN : 33 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Gough 1350s-60s placename:- Shap |
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| source data:- | Map, lithograph facsimile, Gough Map of Britain, 20 miles to 1
inch? published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire,
1935. click to enlargeGgh2Cm.jpg item:- JandMN : 34 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Saxton 1579 placename:- Shapp |
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| source data:- | Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmorlandiae et Cumberlandiae Comitatus ie Westmorland
and Cumberland, scale about 5 miles to 1 inch, by Christopher Saxton, London, engraved
by Augustinus Ryther, 1576, published 1579-1645. Sax9NY51.jpg Church, symbol for a parish or village, with a parish church. "Shapp" item:- private collection : 2 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Mercator 1595 (edn?) placename:- Shap Chapelry |
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| source data:- | Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmorlandia, Lancastria, Cestria
etc, ie Westmorland, Lancashire, Cheshire etc, scale about 10.5
miles to 1 inch, by Gerard Mercator, Duisberg, Germany, 1595,
edition 1613-16. MER5WmdA.jpg "Shap chap." circle item:- Armitt Library : 2008.14.3 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Speed 1611 (Wmd) placename:- Shapp |
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| source data:- | Map, hand coloured engraving, The Countie Westmorland and
Kendale the Cheif Towne, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by
John Speed, 1610, published by George Humble, Popes Head Alley,
London, 1611-12. SP14NY51.jpg "Shapp" circle, building and tower item:- Armitt Library : 2008.14.5 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Jansson 1646 placename:- Shapp |
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| source data:- | Map, hand coloured engraving, Cumbria and Westmoria, ie
Cumberland and Westmorland, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, by
John Jansson, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1646. JAN3NY51.jpg "Shapp" Buildings and tower. item:- JandMN : 88 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Ogilby 1675 (plate 38) placename:- Shop |
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| source data:- | Road strip map, hand coloured engraving, continuation of the
Road from London to Carlisle, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, by
John Ogilby, London, 1675. OG38m272.jpg In mile 272, Westmorland. "Shop" houses each side of the road. item:- JandMN : 21 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Berry 1679 placename:- Shap |
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| source data:- | Road map, diagram, The Grand Roads of England, engraved by John
Rich, made and published by William Berry, at the Sign of the
Globe, London, 1679. "Shap" |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Morden 1695 (Wmd) placename:- Shap |
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| source data:- | Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmorland, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by Robert
Morden, published by Abel Swale, the Unicorn, St Paul's Churchyard, Awnsham, and John
Churchill, the Black Swan, Paternoster Row, London, 1695. MD10NY51.jpg "Shap" Circle, buildings, towers. item:- JandMN : 24 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Bowen 1720 (plate 94) placename:- Shap |
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| source data:- | Strip maps, uncoloured engravings, road maps, The Road from
London to Carlisle, scale about 2 miles to 1 inch, with sections
in Lancashire and Westmorland, published by Emanuel Bowen, St
Katherines, London, 1720. B094m272.jpg item:- Dove Cottage : 2007.38.100 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Millward and Dickinson 1737 placename:- Shap |
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| source data:- | Road map, photocopy, diagram, A New and Correct Map of Roads of
England, probably published by T Millward and B Dickinson, Inigo
Jones's Head, Fleet Street, London, 1737. "Shap"  click to enlargeMWD1Cm.jpg item:- private collection : 264 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Badeslade 1742 placename:- Shap |
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| source data:- | Map, uncoloured engraving, A Map of Westmorland North from
London, scale about 10 miles to 1 inch, with descriptive text,
by Thomas Badeslade, London, engraved and published by William
Henry Toms, Union Court, Holborn, London, 1742. click to enlargeBD12.jpg "Shap" circle, tower/s, upright lowercase text; town item:- Dove Cottage : 2007.38.62 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Gents Mag item:- rebellion, 1745; 1745 Rebellion |
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| source data:- | Magazine, The Gentleman's Magazine or Monthly Intelligencer or
Historical Chronicle, published by Edward Cave under the
pseudonym Sylvanus Urban, and by other publishers, London,
monthly from 1731 to 1922. goto sourceGentleman's Magazine 1746 p.62 "..." "Dec. 14. The D. of Perth with about 110 men, the vanguard of the rebels, ... returned to Shap. Here they staid the remainder of the night, and Perth was in so great a fright, that he durst not keep his quarters, but removed to another house near the middle of the town. Having forc'd a guide here, they set out early in the morning, but not daring to venture the Penrith road, ..." |
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| evidence:- | descriptive text:- Simpson 1746 placename:- Shap placename:- Chepe placename:- Hepe item:- market |
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| source data:- | Atlas, three volumes of maps and descriptive text published as
'The Agreeable Historian, or the Compleat English Traveller
...', by Samuel Simpson, 1746. goto source Page 1025:- "..." "Shap, once called Chepe and Hepe, is a Market-Town five Miles from the Road that leads from Penrith to Brough, and belongs to the Family of Wharton. It has a Moot-house, the upper Part of which is a Room for the publick Business." |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Simpson 1746 map (Wmd) placename:- Shap |
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| source data:- | Map, uncoloured engraving, Westmorland, scale about 8 miles to 1
inch, printed by R Walker, Fleet Lane, London, 1746. SMP2NYK.jpg "Shap" Building; labelled as a town. item:- Dove Cottage : 2007.38.59 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Bickham 1753-54 (Wmd) placename:- Shap |
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| source data:- | Map, uncoloured engraving, perspective view, A Map of
Westmorland, North from London, by George Bickham, James Street,
Bunhill Fields, London, 1753. click to enlargeBCK3.jpg "Shap" view (sort of) item:- Armitt Library : 2008.14.71 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Bowen and Kitchin 1760 placename:- Shaw placename:- Shape |
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| 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. BO18NY41.jpg "Shaw als Shape" blocks, on road item:- Armitt Library : 2008.14.10 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd) placename:- Shap |
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| 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. J5NY51NE.jpg "SHAP" blocks on a street plan, labelled in block caps; settlement, market town? item:- National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47 Image © National Library of Scotland |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Jefferys 1770 placename:- Shap |
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| 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. JEF5Shap.jpg "SHAP" blocks along a street, and a church item:- National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47 Image © National Library of Scotland |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Pennant 1777 placename:- Shop |
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| source data:- | Map, hand coloured engraving, A Map of Scotland, Hebrides and
Part of England, drawn for Thomas Pennant, engraved by J Bayly,
published by Benjamin White, London, 1777. click to enlargePEN1Cm.jpg "Shop" circle; buildings, village, etc item:- private collection : 66 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | descriptive text:- West 1778 (11th edn 1821) |
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| 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. goto source Page 173:- "..." "... to the village of Shap, a proper place for refreshment, before you face Shap-fells, ..." |
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| evidence:- | old map:- West 1784 map placename:- Shap |
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| 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. Ws02NY51.jpg "SHAP" item:- Armitt Library : A1221.1 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Camden 1789 (Gough Additions) placename:- Shap placename:- Heppe |
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| source data:- | Book, Britannia, or A Chorographical Description of the Flourishing Kingdoms of England,
Scotland, and Ireland, by William Camden, 1586, translated from the 1607 Latin edition
by Richard Gough, published London, 1789. goto source Page 161:- "..." "Shap, antiently written Heppe, is a long village, ..." |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Cary 1789 (edn 1805) placename:- Shap |
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| source data:- | Map, uncoloured engraving, Westmoreland, scale about 2.5 miles
to 1 inch, by John Cary, London, 1789; edition 1805. CY24NY51.jpg "SHAP" blocks, church symbol, labelled in block caps; town item:- JandMN : 129 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | road book:- Cary 1798 (2nd edn 1802) placename:- Shap |
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| source data:- | Road book, itineraries, Cary's New Itinerary, by John Cary, 181
Strand, London, 2nd edn 1802. goto source click to enlargeC38267.jpg page 267-268 "Shap - M.H." market hall goto source click to enlargeC38269.jpg page 269-270 "INNS. ... Shap, King's Arms, New Inn. ..." item:- JandMN : 228.1 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | descriptive text:- Baker 1802 placename:- Shap |
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| source data:- | Perspective road map with sections in Lancashire, Westmorland,
and Cumberland, by J Baker, London 1802. pp.25-26:- "..." "... Shap is a small town, principally of use to travellers for rest, and to divide the dreary stages between Kendal and Penrith. Here were latterly some relics of a convent of Cistercian monks, and there are still to be seen near it some enormous stones, that are supposed either to have been sepulchral or druidical monuments. ..." |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Baker 1802 placename:- Shap |
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| source data:- | Perspective road maps with sections in Lancashire, Westmorland
and Cumberland, by J Baker, London 1802. Bk03Vg10.jpg "Shap / 276" item:- private collection : 3 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Cooke 1802 placename:- Shap |
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| 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. click to enlargeGRA1Wd.jpg "Shap" blocks, italic lowercase text, village, hamlet, locality item:- Hampshire Museums : FA2000.62.4 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Cooke 1802 placename:- Shap |
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| source data:- | Map, The Lakes, Westmorland and Cumberland, scale about 8.5
miles to 1 inch, engravedby Neele and Son, published by
Sherwood, Jones and Co, Paternoster Road, London, 1824. click to enlargeGRA1Lk.jpg "Shap" blocks, italic lowercase text, village, hamlet, locality item:- Hampshire Museums : FA2000.62.5 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Laurie and Whittle 1806 placename:- Shap |
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| 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. click to enlargeLw18.jpg "Shap 277½" village or other place; distance from London item:- private collection : 18.18 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Capper 1808 placename:- Shap |
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| source data:- | Gazetteer, A Topographical Dictionary of the United Kingdom,
compiled by Benjamin Pitts Capper, published by Richard
Phillips, Bridge Street, Blackfriars, London, 1808; published
1808-29. goto source "..." "SHAP, a parish in West ward, Westmoreland, 5 miles from Orton and 279 from London; containing 161 houses and 828 inhabitants. It is situated near the source of the Loder, and had once a famous monastery of Premonstratensian canons; ... In the neighbourhood are many vast stones, ... Fair 4th May. It is a curacy. Burn's Westmoreland." "..." |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Cooper 1808 placename:- Shap |
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| source data:- | Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmoreland ie Westmorland, scale
about 9 miles to 1 inch, by H Cooper, 1808, published by R
Phillips, Bridge Street, Blackfriars, London, 1808. click to enlargeCOP4.jpg "Shap" circle; village or hamlet item:- Dove Cottage : 2007.38.53 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Wallis 1810 (Wmd) placename:- Shap |
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| 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? click to enlargeWAL5.jpg "Shap" village, hamlet, house, ... item:- JandMN : 63 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | descriptive text:- Wallis 1810 placename:- Skapp |
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| source data:- | Map, Westmoreland, scale about 19 miles to 1 inch, and
Cumberland, scale about 16 miles to 1 inch, by James Wallis, 77
Berwick Street, Soho, London, 1810; published 1810-36. "PRINCIPAL FAIRS." "Skapp: May 4, horned cattle." |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Otley 1818 placename:- Shap |
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| 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. OT02NY51.jpg "SHAP" item:- JandMN : 48.1 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Hall 1820 (Wmd) placename:- Shap |
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| source data:- | Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmoreland ie Westmorland, scale
about 14.5 miles to 1 inch, by Sidney Hall, London, 1820,
published by Samuel Leigh, 18 Strand, London, 1820-31. click to enlargeHA18.jpg "Shap / 277" circle, upright lowercase text; town; distance from London item:- Armitt Library : 2008.14.58 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Greenwood 1824 (Wmd) placename:- Shap |
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| source data:- | Map, hand coloured engraving, Map of the County of Westmorland,
scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, by C and J Greenwood, published by
George Pringle jnr, 70 Queen Street, Cheapside, London, 1824. grw5shap.jpg "SHAP" street map, just a long street; labelled in block caps for a market town; notice the Greyhound inn and Shap Abbey. item:- Armitt Library : A1827 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | descriptive text:- Ford 1839 (3rd edn 1843) placename:- Shap |
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| source data:- | Guide book, A Description of Scenery in the Lake District, by
Rev William Ford, published by Charles Thurnam, Carlisle, by W
Edwards, 12 Ave Maria Lane, Charles Tilt, Fleet Street, William
Smith, 113 Fleet Street, London, by Currie and Bowman,
Newcastle, by Bancks and Co, Manchester, by Oliver and Boyd,
Edinburgh, and by Sinclair, Dumfries, 1839. goto source Page 141:- "..." "The town of Shap, standing on the high road, has excellent inns; and not far from it, the Earl of Lonsdale has erected a commodious and elegant hotel, for the accommodation of visitors to the Wells, which have lately become a place of genteel resort. ..." |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Ford 1839 map placename:- Shap |
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| source data:- | Map, uncoloured engraving, Map of the Lake District of
Cumberland, Westmoreland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles
to 1 inch, published by Charles Thurnam, Carlisle, and by R
Groombridge, 5 Paternoster Row, London, 3rd edn 1843. FD02NY51.jpg "SHAP" item:- JandMN : 100.1 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Garnett 1850s-60s H placename:- Shap |
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| 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. GAR2NY51.jpg "Shap" blocks, settlement item:- JandMN : 82.1 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | probably fiction:- Trollope 1864 placename:- Shap |
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| source data:- | goto source chapter 38 The inn at Shap "... There is a station at Shap, by which the railway company no doubt conceives that it has conferred on that somewhat rough and remote locality all the advantages of a refined civilization; but I doubt whether the Shappites have been thankful for the favour. ... though it lay high and bleak among the fells, and was a cold, windy, thinly-populated place, - filling all travellers with thankfulness that they had not been made Shappites, nevertheless, it had had its glory in its coaching and posting. I have no doubt that there are men and women who look back with a fond regret to the palmy days of Shap." "..." "... Vavasor was, by the road, about five miles from Shap, and it was not altogether an easy task for Kate to get over to the village without informing her [Kate's] grandfather that the visit was to be made, and what was its purport. ..." "... 'Where do you want to go? ... 'Only to Shap, grandpa.'" "'To Shap! what on earth can take you to Shap? There are no shops at Shap.'" |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Harper 1907 placename:- Shap item:- market, Shap |
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| source data:- | Guidebook, The Manchester and Glasgow Road, by Charles G Harper,
published by Chapman and Hall Ltd, London, 1907. HP01p112.txt Page 112:- "..." "The village of Shap, although itself of no mean altitude, seems quite sheltered after the four miles run down from the summit. ..." HP01p113.txt Page 113:- "..." "Shap is a large village with cattle-market, and an odd squat building styled a "market cross," now used as a parish room, but it is chiefly famous among tourists for its Abbey, ..." |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Burrow 1920s |
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| source data:- | Road book, On the Road, Dunlop Pictorial Road Plans, volume V,
strip maps with parts in Westmorland, Cumberland etc, irregular
scale about 1.5 miles to 1 inch, by E J Burrow and Co,
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, 1920s. EJB3Vg15.jpg item:- private collection : 17 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | market notes:- item:- market |
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| source data:- | : 1889: Market Rights and Tolls: HM GovernmentMillward, Roy &Robinson, Adrian: 1970: Lake District, The: Eyre and Spottiswoode (London) | |||
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| date:- | 1687 |
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| period:- | 17th century, late | |||
| item:- | charter; market charter |
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| Market charter granted 1687, Wednesday market, and 3 annual fairs. |
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