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Carlisle: Botchergate
Botchergate
locality:-   Botchergate
civil parish:-   Carlisle (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   street
coordinates:-   NY40465547 (etc) 
1Km square:-   NY4055
10Km square:-   NY45


photograph
BYT55.jpg  North end.
(taken 9.7.2013)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 23 8) 
placename:-  Botchergate
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:- Ogilby 1675 (plate 86) 
placename:-  Bother Street
source data:-   Road strip map, uncoloured engraving, the Road from Tinmouth ... to Carlisle, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, by John Ogilby, London, 1675.
image
OG86m065.jpg
In mile 69, Cumberland.  "Bother street"
houses each side of the road, outwith the town walls. 
item:-  JandMN : 73
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   probably old map:- Ogilby 1675 (plate 96) 
source data:-   Road strip map, hand coloured engraving, the Road from Kendal to Cockermouth, and the Road from Egremond to Carlisle, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, by John Ogilby, London, 1675.
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OG96Bm35.jpg
In mile 38, Cumberland. 
Houses each side of the road outside Carlisle town wall at English Gate. 
item:-  JandMN : 22
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   old map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd) 
placename:-  Botcher Gate
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.
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D44055H.jpg
"Botcher Gate"
street 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library

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