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Hutton Roof
civil parish:-   Hutton Roof (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   SD57047818 (etc) 
1Km square:-   SD5778
10Km square:-   SD57


photograph
BMY01.jpg  AA village sign:-
"Automobile Association / LUPTON 1½ / BURTON IN KENDAL 3¾ / LONDON 252¼/ SAFETY FIRST" (taken 29.10.2006)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 47 10) 
placename:-  Hutton Roof
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 map:- Morden 1695 (Wmd) 
placename:-  Hutton Roof
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmorland, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by Robert Morden, published by Abel Swale, the Unicorn, St Paul's Churchyard, Awnsham, and John Churchill, the Black Swan, Paternoster Row, London, 1695.
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MD10SD58.jpg
"Hutton Roof"
Circle, building and tower. 
item:-  JandMN : 24
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   old map:- Simpson 1746 map (Wmd) 
placename:-  Hutton Roof
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Westmorland, scale about 8 miles to 1 inch, printed by R Walker, Fleet Lane, London, 1746.
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SMP2SDP.jpg
"Hutton Roof"
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2007.38.59
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   old map:- Bowen and Kitchin 1760
placename:-  Hutton Roof
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
BO18SD58.jpg
"Hutton Roof"
circle, tower 
item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.14.10
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evidence:-   old map:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd) 
placename:-  Hutton Roof
source data:-   Map, 4 sheets, The County of Westmoreland, scale 1 inch to 1 mile, surveyed 1768, and engraved and published by Thomas Jefferys, London, 1770.
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J5SD57NE.jpg
"Hutton Roof"
blocks, labelled in upright lowercase text; settlement; town? 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland

evidence:-   old map:- Cary 1789 (edn 1805) 
placename:-  Hutton Roof
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Westmoreland, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Cary, London, 1789; edition 1805.
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CY24SD57.jpg
"Hutton Roof"
block/s, labelled in italic lowercase; house, or hamlet 
item:-  JandMN : 129
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evidence:-   old map:- Cooper 1808
placename:-  Hutton Roof
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmoreland ie Westmorland, scale about 9 miles to 1 inch, by H Cooper, 1808, published by R Phillips, Bridge Street, Blackfriars, London, 1808.
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COP4.jpg
"Hutton Roof"
circle; village or hamlet 
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2007.38.53
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   descriptive text:- Otley 1823 (5th edn 1834) 
item:-  geologycoal
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.
image OT01P163, button  goto source
Page 163:-  "... southward, the first appearance of coal is at Hutton Roof, between Burton and Kirkby Lonsdale; ..."

evidence:-   old map:- Ford 1839 map
placename:-  Hutton Roof
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.
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FD02SD57.jpg
"Hutton Roof"
item:-  JandMN : 100.1
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evidence:-   old map:- Post Office 1850s-1900s
placename:-  Hutton Roof
source data:-   Post road maps, General Post Office Circulation Map for England and Wales, for the General Post Office, London, 1850s-1900s.
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POF7Cm.jpg
"Hutton Roof"
map date 1909 

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images courtesy of the British Postal Museum and Hampshire CC Museums

notes:-  
In the late 19th century there was an inn, a jerry house, where navvies working on the Tirlmere aqueduct met.

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