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road, Penrith to Hesket Newmarket
Penrith to Hesket Newmarket
Hesket Newmarket to Penrith
locality:-   Penrith
civil parish:-   Penrith (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   route
locality:-   Hesket Newmarket
civil parish:-   Caldbeck (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   route

route parts:-    Penrith to Wigton until a junction
 road, through Hesket Newmarket

evidence:-   old map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd) 
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.
double line, solid or dotted, with a dot or milestone and number at 1 mile intervals, tinted red; turnpike road 
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"H. to P. 13:2:12"
miles.furlongs.poles; Hesket to Penrith 
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item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 2
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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.
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double line, light dark solid; road AND double line, light dark dotted; unfenced road 
item:-  Hampshire Museums : FA2000.62.2
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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.
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"H to P 13 Ms."
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item:-  JandMN : 100.1
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evidence:-   old strip map:- CTC 1911 (Roads) 
source data:-   Page 106 of Cyclists' Touring Club British Road Book new series vol.6, edited by F B Sandford, published by Thomas Nelson and Sons, London etc, 1911.
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Strip road map, route 52, Allonby Aspatria Caldbeck Skelton, scale roughly 5 miles to 1 inch. 
Together with an itinerary and gradient diagram. 
item:-  JandMN : 491.106
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