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 road, Carlisle to Silloth from Abbey Town
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| road, Wigton to Silloth | |||
| Wigton to Silloth | |||
| Silloth to Wigton | |||
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| civil parish:- | Wigton (formerly Cumberland) | ||
| civil parish:- | Woodside (formerly Cumberland) | ||
| civil parish:- | Waverton (formerly Cumberland) | ||
| civil parish:- | Dundraw (formerly Cumberland) | ||
| civil parish:- | Holme Abbey (formerly Cumberland) | ||
| civil parish:- | Holme Low (formerly Cumberland) | ||
| civil parish:- | Silloth-on-Solway (formerly Cumberland) | ||
| county:- | Cumbria | ||
| locality type:- | route | ||
| 10Km square:- | NY24 | ||
| 10Km square:- | NY14 | ||
| 10Km square:- | NY15 | ||
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| evidence:- | old map:- Bowen and Kitchin 1760 |
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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. BO18NY14.jpg double line, dotted item:- Armitt Library : 2008.14.10 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd) |
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| 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  D4NY15SE.jpg  D4NY14NE.jpg  D4NY24NW.jpg "A to W. 6:0:0" miles.furlongs.poles; Abbey Holm to Wigton item:- Carlisle Library : Map 2 Images © Carlisle Library |
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| evidence:- | road map:- Cary 1790 (Cmd/edn 1789) |
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| source data:- | Road map, hand coloured engraving, Cumberland, scale about 15
miles to 1 inch, by John Cary, 181 Strand, London, 1790, edn
1789. click to enlargeCY47.jpg as far as Abbey Town double line item:- JandMN : 419 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | road book:- Cary 1798 (2nd edn 1802) |
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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 enlargeC38321.jpg page 321-322 part of item:- JandMN : 228.1 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Cooke 1802 |
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| 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. click to enlargeGRA1Cd.jpg double line, light dark solid; road AND double line, light dark dotted; unfenced road item:- Hampshire Museums : FA2000.62.2 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Laurie and Whittle 1806 |
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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 bold line; 'Principal Travelling Roads' item:- private collection : 18.18 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | partly old map:- Wallis 1810 (Cmd) |
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| source data:- | Road map, hand coloured engraving, Cumberland, scale about 16
miles to 1 inch, by James Wallis, 77 Berwick Stree, Soho,
London, 1810. click to enlargeWL13.jpg double line, light bold; 'Turnpike Road' item:- Dove Cottage : 2009.81.10 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Hall 1820 (Cmd) |
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| 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. click to enlargeHA14.jpg single line, solid; minor road; Wigton, Holme Coultram, ... item:- JandMN : 91 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | gradient diagram:- Gall and Inglis 1890s-1900s (Roads) |
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| 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. click to enlargeIG5166.jpg Itinerary, with gradient diagram, routes 166, Longtown to Brampton, 167, Wigton to Silloth, 168, Keswick to Cockermouth, 169, Troutbeck to Patterdale, and 170, Penrith to Troutbeck, Cumberland, 1898. item:- JandMN : 763.11 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Bell 1892 |
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| source data:- | Map, colour lithograph, Road Map of Cumberland, by George Joseph
Bell, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, printed by Charles
Thurnam and Sons, Carlisle, Cumberland, 1892. BEL9NY15.jpg  BEL9NY24.jpg blue - declared 'main road' by magistrates, as the county authority, since 1878, under section 15 of the Highways Act 1878 Road map of Cumberland showing County Bridges item:- Carlisle Library : Map 38 Images © Carlisle Library |
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| evidence:- | old strip map:- CTC 1911 (Roads) |
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| source data:- | Page 105 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. click to enlargeCTC2A5.jpg Strip road map, route 51, Abbey Town Wigton Rosley Penrith, scale roughly 5 miles to 1 inch. Together with an itinerary and gradient diagram. item:- JandMN : 491.105 Image © see bottom of page |
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| places:- | Wigton Waverbridge, Dundraw Abbey Town, Holme Abbey Silloth |
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