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  road, Levens Bridge to Barrow-in-Furness
 road, Barrow-in-Furness to Whitehaven
road, Dalton-in-Furness to Barrow-in-Furness
Dalton-in-Furness to Barrow-in-Furness
Barrow-in-Furness to Dalton-in-Furness
A590
civil parish:-   Dalton Town with Newton (formerly Lancashire)
civil parish:-   Barrow-in-Furness (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   route
10Km square:-   SD27
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 185, Kendal to Barrow, and route 187, Kendal to Keswick, Westmorland and Lancashire, 1898. 
item:-  JandMN : 763.18
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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:- CTC 1911 (Roads) 
source data:-   Page 81 of Cyclists' Touring Club British Road Book new series vol.6, edited by F B Sandford, published by Thomas Nelson and Sons, London etc, 1911.
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Strip road map, route 36, Kendal Ulverston Barrow-in-Furness, scale roughly 5 miles to 1 inch. 
Together with an itinerary and gradient diagram. 
item:-  JandMN : 491.81
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evidence:-   old strip map:- CTC 1911 (Roads) 
source data:-   Page 117 of Cyclists' Touring Club British Road Book new series vol.6, edited by F B Sandford, published by Thomas Nelson and Sons, London etc, 1911.
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Strip road map, route 62, Wasdale Broughton Barrow-in-Furness, scale roughly 5 miles to 1 inch. 
Together with an itinerary and gradient diagram. 
item:-  JandMN : 491.117
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evidence:-   old strip map:- Geographia 1925
source data:-   Road book, with road strip maps and gradient diagrams, Premier Road Book of Great Britain, by Alexander Gross and F Waite-Browne, published by Geographia, 55 Fleet Street, London, about 1925?
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"250. - KENDAL TO BARROW."
item:-  Hampshire Museums : B1990.161.4
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evidence:-   old strip map:- Rumney 1899
source data:-   Road map, strip map, gradient diagram, and itinerary for Route III, Newby Bridge to Furness Abbey and Barrow, Lancashire, 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.22 of the Cyclist's Guide to the English Lake District, by A W Rumney. 
printed at top:-  "Route III."
item:-  JandMN : 147.6
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photograph
BPC36.jpg  The Kendal Barrow bus passing through High Newton, Upper Allithwaite.
(taken 26.4.2008)  
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BPC37.jpg  Bus map.
(taken 26.4.2008)  
places:-    Dalton-in-Furness
 Barrow-in-Furness
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