Backbarrow, Haverthwaite | ||
Backbarrow | ||
civil parish:- | Haverthwaite (formerly Lancashire) | |
county:- | Cumbria | |
locality type:- | buildings | |
coordinates:- | SD357847 | |
1Km square:- | SD3584 | |
10Km square:- | SD38 | |
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evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Lan 12 2) placename:- Backbarrow |
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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. |
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evidence:- | old map:- West 1784 map placename:- Backbarrow |
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source data:- | Map, hand coloured engraving, A Map of the Lakes in Cumberland,
Westmorland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch,
engraved by Paas, 53 Holborn, London, about 1784. Ws02SD38.jpg "Backbarrow / Furnace" item:- Armitt Library : A1221.1 Image © see bottom of page |
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evidence:- | old map:- Otley 1818 placename:- Backbarrow |
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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. OT02SD38.jpg item:- JandMN : 48.1 Image © see bottom of page |
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evidence:- | descriptive text:- Otley 1823 (5th edn 1834) item:- cotton; iron; pyroligneous acid; gunpowder |
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source data:- | Guide book, A Concise Description of the English Lakes, the
mountains in their vicinity, and the roads by which they may be
visited, with remarks on the mineralogy and geology of the
district, by Jonathan Otley, published by the author, Keswick,
Cumberland now Cumbria, by J Richardson, London, and by Arthur
Foster, Kirkby Lonsdale, Cumbria, 1823; published 1823-49,
latterly as the Descriptive Guide to the English Lakes. goto source Page 95:- "... Backbarrow, where it [the road] crosses the river by a bridge situated among manufactories of cotton, of iron, of pyroligneous acid, and of gunpowder. ..." |
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evidence:- | old map:- Garnett 1850s-60s H placename:- Backbarrow |
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source data:- | Map of the English Lakes, in Cumberland, Westmorland and
Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by John
Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, 1850s-60s. GAR2SD38.jpg "Backbarrow" blocks, settlement item:- JandMN : 82.1 Image © see bottom of page |
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evidence:- | old map:- Post Office 1850s-1900s placename:- Backbarrow |
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source data:- | Post road maps, General Post Office Circulation Map for England
and Wales, for the General Post Office, London, 1850s-1900s. click to enlarge POF7Cm.jpg "Backbarrow" map date 1909 |
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evidence:- | old map:- Post Office 1850s-1900s placename:- Backbarrow |
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source data:- | Post road maps, General Post Office Circulation Map for England
and Wales, for the General Post Office, London, 1850s-1900s. click to enlarge PF10Cm.jpg "Backbarrow" map date 1892 |
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images courtesy of the British Postal Museum and Hampshire CC Museums |
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