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High Street roman road
High Street
site name:-   High Street
civil parish:-   Barton (formerly Westmorland)
civil parish:-   Martindale (formerly Westmorland)
civil parish:-   Patterdale (formerly Westmorland)
civil parish:-   Shap Rural (formerly Westmorland)
civil parish:-   Lakes (formerly Westmorland)
civil parish:-   Bampton (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   roman road
locality type:-   road
10Km square:-   NY41
10Km square:-   NY42


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BQL01.jpg  On Park Fell, Troutbeck, called Scot Rake.
(taken 16.4.2009)  
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BXP24.jpg  The long level ridge for the roman road.
(taken 27.10.2012)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 13 2) 
placename:-  High Street
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.
OS County Series (Wmd 13 9) 
OS County Series (Wmd 20 1) 

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 19 16) 
placename:-  Scot Rake
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.

evidence:-   old text:- Martineau 1855
source data:-   Guide book, A Complete Guide to the English Lakes, by Harriet Martineau, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, and by Whittaker and Co, London, 1855; published 1855-76.
image MNU1P033, button  goto source
Page 33:-  "... The singular valley of Troutbeck was once a wooded basin, where the terrified Britons took refuge from the Romans, while the latter were making their great road from Kendal to Penrith. That road actually ran along the very ridge of the"
image MNU1P034, button  goto source
Page 34:-  "Troutbeck hills, as any one may see who will climb the mountain called, for this reason, High Street. What a sight it must have been - the pioneers felling the trees, and paving the way, and the soldiers following, with their armour and weapons gleaming in the sun, while the trembling natives cowered in the forest below,- listening now to the blows of the workmen, and now to the warlike music of the troops, marching up from Kendal! ..."


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BQL02.jpg  On Park Fell, Troutbeck, called Scot Rake.
(taken 16.4.2009)  
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BQL03.jpg  On Park Fell, Troutbeck.
(taken 16.4.2009)  
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BQL04.jpg  On Park Fell, Troutbeck.
(taken 16.4.2009)  


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BNP11.jpg  On High Street, Patterdale
(taken 18.4.2007)  
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BYE35.jpg  On High Street, Patterdale
(taken 10.4.2013)  
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CDL90.jpg  From Bannerdale.
(taken 30.6.2015)  

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