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sands road, Duddon Sands
Duddon Sands road
site name:-   Duddon Estuary
civil parish:-   Askam and Ireleth (formerly Lancashire)
civil parish:-   Kirkby Ireleth (formerly Lancashire)
civil parish:-   Millom (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   sands road
locality type:-   route
10Km square:-   SD27
10Km square:-   SD17


photograph
BSM90.jpg  Askam end; tide on the flood.
(taken 16.4.2010)  
photograph
BSM91.jpg  Askam end; tide on the flood.
(taken 16.4.2010)  

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.
image
BO18SD17.jpg
double line, dotted 
item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.14.10
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evidence:-   old text:- Camden 1789 (Gough Additions) 
item:-  sands guide
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.
image CAM2P142, button  goto source
Page 142:-  "..."
"The three sands mentioned by Mr. Camden are very dangerous to travellers by the tides and the many quicksands. There is a guide on horseback appointed to Ken or Lancaster sand ... but to Dudden, which are most dangerous, none; ..."

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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CY46.jpg
"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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CY47.jpg
from Ulverston double line 
item:-  JandMN : 419
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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.
image  click to enlarge
GRA1Cd.jpg
double line, dotted, across Duddon Sands 
item:-  Hampshire Museums : FA2000.62.2
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evidence:-   old map:- Cooke 1802
source data:-   Map, Lancashire, scale about 18 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.
image  click to enlarge
GRA1La.jpg
"from Ravenglass"
double line, light dark solid; road, across Duddon Sands 
item:-  Hampshire Museums : FA2000.62.6
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evidence:-   old map:- Otley 1818
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.
image
OT02SD27.jpg
Drawn by a double dotted line across the estuary. 
item:-  JandMN : 48.1
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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.
image
FD02SD27.jpg
Dotted line from Kirkby Ireleth to road to Millom. 
item:-  JandMN : 100.1
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photograph
BSM92.jpg  Askam end; warning.
(taken 16.4.2010)  

hearsay:-  
Travellers crossing Duddon Sands came ashore, east, at Gallow Bank, Millom.
One local man, Francis Roudley, was a tide walker or tide waiter, he brogged the route across the sands ie at low water he went out and marked the way with branches stuck in the sand.

places:-   one of several routes 
[Askam in Furness, Askam and Ireleth]
 Gallow Bank, Millom
 Millom

places:-  
SD20988306 High Ford (Angerton)
SD19108075 Low Ford (Millom / Kirkby Ireleth)
SD21428193 Middle Ford (Angerton / Millom Without)
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