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ford, Whinfell (2)
Guest Ford
site name:-   Mint, River
locality:-   Guestford
civil parish:-   Whinfell (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   ford
coordinates:-   SD55629926
1Km square:-   SD5599
10Km square:-   SD59
SummaryText:-   The track leads to a house called Guestford
SummaryText:-   The parish boundary to the west is on an old bed of the river, where this ford would have been


photograph
BNG96.jpg  From the Whitwell and Selside bank; after a little recent rain.
(taken 2.3.2007)  
photograph
BNG97.jpg  From the Whitwell and Selside bank; after a little recent rain.
(taken 2.3.2007)  
It makes you realise what was 'fordable' in the days of horse travel and a more robust attitude to foot travel.

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 34 6) 
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.
"Ford"

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.
image
J5SD59NE.jpg
road interrupted by river; ford 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland

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