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  road, Barrow-in-Furness to Whitehaven
road, Broughton to Ravenglass
Broughton in Furness to Ravenglass
Ravenglass to Broughton in Furness
A595
civil parish:-   Broughton West (formerly Lancashire)
civil parish:-   Millom Without (formerly Cumberland)
civil parish:-   Bootle (formerly Cumberland)
civil parish:-   Waberthwaite (formerly Cumberland)
civil parish:-   Muncaster (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   road route
10Km square:-   SD09
10Km square:-   SD08
10Km square:-   SD18
10Km square:-   SD28
evidence:-   old text:- Gents Mag
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.
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Gentleman's Magazine 1750 p.186 
The Historical Chronicle for April 1750, Wednesday 11 has the royal assent given to bills for:-  "..."
"For repairing and widening the roads leading from Egremont to Duddon bridge, Santon bridge, and Salt-house, in the county of Cumberland."
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? 
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double line, solid 
item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.14.10
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evidence:-   old map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd) 
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, 3x2 sheets, The County of Cumberland, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, by Thomas Donald, engraved and published by Joseph Hodskinson, 29 Arundel Street, Strand, London, 1774.
double line, narrower, solid or dotted with a dot and number at 1 mile intervals; road 
distances from Whitehaven 
to Duddon Bridge, into Lancashire 
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item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 2
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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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"from Ravenglass"
double line 
item:-  JandMN : 418
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evidence:-   road map:- Cary 1790 (Cmd/edn 1789) 
source data:-   Road map, hand coloured engraving, Cumberland, scale about 15 miles to 1 inch, by John Cary, 181 Strand, London, 1790, edn 1789.
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double line 
item:-  JandMN : 419
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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 319-320  "[LONDON to Whitehaven.] Another Road across Lancaster Sands."
part of 
item:-  JandMN : 228.1
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evidence:-   old map:- Cooke 1802
source data:-   Map, Cumberland, scale about 15.5 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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double line, light dark solid; road AND double line, light dark dotted; unfenced road 
item:-  Hampshire Museums : FA2000.62.2
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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 (Cmd) 
source data:-   Road map, hand coloured engraving, Cumberland, scale about 16 miles to 1 inch, by James Wallis, 77 Berwick Stree, Soho, London, 1810.
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double line, light bold; 'Turnpike Road' 
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2009.81.10
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evidence:-   old text:- Green 1814
placename:-  
item:-  tide
source data:-   Set of prints, soft ground etchings, Sixty Small Prints, with text, A Description of a Series of Sixty Small Prints, by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1814.
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page 24:-  "..."
"The carriage-road ... from Broughton to Nether Wastdale, (enquire at Broughton about the tides,) by Bootle, Ravenglass, or by Muncaster. ..."
evidence:-   old map:- Hall 1820 (Cmd) 
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Cumberland, scale about 21 miles to 1 inch, engraved by Sidney Hall, published by S Leigh, 18 Strand, London, 1820-31.
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single line, solid; minor road; .., Duddon Bank, Bootle, Waberthwaite, across the Esk, Ravenglass OR .., Duddon Bank, Wood House, Muncaster, Ravenglass 
item:-  JandMN : 91
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evidence:-   old map:- Ford 1839 map
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.
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"R to B 11 Ms."
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item:-  JandMN : 100.1
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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 196, Sedbergh to Shap, and route 197, Barrow to Ravenglass, Westmorland, Yorkshire, Cumberland and Lancashire, 1898. 
item:-  JandMN : 763.22
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evidence:-   old strip map:- Rumney 1899
source data:-   Road map, strip map, gradient diagram, and itinerary for Route XX, The Main West Trunk Road, Cumberland, scale about 2 miles to 1 inch, by A W Rumney, published by George Philip and Son, 32 Fleet Street, London, and Liverpool, 1899.
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On p.84 of the Cyclist's Guide to the English Lake District, by A W Rumney. 
printed at top:-  "Route XX."
item:-  JandMN : 147.33
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 Act of Parliament
places:-    Broughton in Furness
 Duddon Bridge, Millom Without
 Hallthwaites, Millom Without
 Whicham
 Bootle
 Waberthwaite
 Ravenglass
places:-   alternative hill route 
 Broughton in Furness
 Duddon Bridge, Millom Without
 Thwaites Fell, Millom Without
 Corney Fell, Waberthwaite
 Ravenglass
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