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Bowen 1720, plate 260 text
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The Road from Kendal to Cockermouth - from Kendal on past
Keswick, Cumberland.
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Places labelled are:-
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Kendal, a Com~on, The Castle, Lunt Flu / 1 ... 2 /
Barnside on right / 3 ... 5 / Stanley / 6, Caston / Chappel
on ye Inges on right / 7 / Grass Gate on right?, Broad Gate
on left? / 8 / Winandermere / 9 / a Water Mill / 10 ...
Winandermere Water on the left ... 13 / Ambleside, The Hall
/ 14 / Ridal Park both sides of the road, Ridal Hall on
right / Ridal, Smiths Shop, 15 ... 19 / Grasmere Hill, enter
Cumberland, Dunmail Raise Stones drawn by 6 upstanding
stones on left / 20 / Wibourn Chappel / 21 / 22, Wibourn
Water, 23 / Thurlspot / 24 ... Smathods Bridge over
Thurlmire Flubius ... 28 / Cust / 29, Cartherit / Keswick, a
Wood Br. over Thurlemire Flu / 30, a turning to Cockermout
ye worst way, a Smiths shop, Crosthwate on left / 31 /
Milbeck Hall on right / 32 ... 33 / Little Crosthwate / part
of Basinthwate / 34 ... 35 / part of Basinthwate / 36,
Basinthwate on right / Birthut Wood on right / 37 / Cole:
Beck / 38, Armanthwate
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Descriptive texts:-
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Winander Meer (at 12) Is reckoned the largest Lake in
England & affords great plenty of Fish.
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Keswick (at 29) Was formerly a Town of note, It's Saturday
Mt. was procured for it of K. Ed. 1st. by Thos. of
Derwent-water then Ld. of it, from whom it Haereditarily
descended to the Radcliffs. This place has been for many
ages famous for its Mines & the Miners have a convenient
Smelling House by ye Darwent Side, which they mannage so
ingeniously by its forcible Stream as to make it serve for
Bellows, Hammers, & Forge, & also for Sawing Boards, to the
great admiration of the curious Spectator. Sr. Ino. Banks
Knt. Attorney General to K. Chast. a Native of this Town
erected a Workhouse here for employing the Poor of this & ye
Parish of Crosthwate.
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Dunmail Raise Stones Are supposed to have been erected by
Dunmail K. of Cumberland for ye bounds of his Kingdom. (at
20)
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Ambleside (at 13) Conjectured by some to be ye Amblogand of
ye Romans, from ye Ruins of an old Roman Fortification &
Coyns &. has a Mt. on Wedn. well stored wth. Provisions.
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Kendal So called from its scituation on Kan or Kant Flu. Is
a large Town well built & populous, driving a considerable
Trade in the Woollen Manufacture. It had formerly a strong
Castle, ye Walls of which are partly yet standing, & has now
a large Church & abt. 12 Chappels of ease. It was made a
Corp. by Qu. Eliz. [ ] Rn~i & afterwds. by K. Ia. 1st. [ ]
Rn~i consisting of a Mayor, 12 Ald, 12 Comon Councilmn, a
Recordr, &c. Here is a good Freeschool well endowed with
Exhibitions to Queens Coll. Oxon. Mt. Sat. Fairs Apr. 25th.
& Oct. 28th. & between ye said Fairs a great Mt. for Cattle
once a Fortnight.
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