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Bacon 1910s B
Road book, road maps and itineraries, Bacon's Up-to-date Cycling Pocket Road Book of England and Wales, published by G W Bacon and Co, 127 Strand, London, 1900s.
The road book includes, as well as advertisements which are dispersed through the volume - title page, contents, introduction, list of routes from London, road map of England and Wales, documented separately; list of cross routes; rates for cycles on railways, definition of a mile, lighting up times; 185 pages of itineraries, which give distances from start and a few hotels, no route descriptions; and an index to places.
The routes that concern Westmorland and Cumberland etc are:-
In 'SECTION II. DIRECT ROUTES NORTH OF LONDON'
page 20 route 51 - London to edinburgh by Carlisle.
page 23 route 54 - London to Glasgow by Manchster and Carlisle.
In 'SECTION III. CROSS ROADS'
page 50 route 113 - Barrow-in-Furness to Hartlepool.
page 50 route 114 - Barrow-in-Furness to Maryport.
page 50 route 115 - Barrow-in-Furness to Scarborough.
page 83 route 185 - Carlisle to Redcar by Richmond.
page 84 route 186 - Carlisle to Sunderland by Penrith and Durham.
page 99 route 220 - Derby to Kendal.
page 103 route 230 - Durham to Lancaster.
page 120 route 271 - Lancaster to Barrow-in-Furness.
page 137 route 306 - Maryport to Northallerton by Kendal.
page 138 route 307 - Maryport to Redcar by Richmond (Yorks.)
pages 138 and 139 route 308 - Maryport to Whitby by Barnard Castle and Darlington.
page 140 route 312 - Newcastle-on-Tyne to Carlisle by Hexham.
pages 165 and 166 route 312 - Sunderland to Whitehaven by Newcastle-on-Tyne and Carlisle.
inscription:- printed cover
Bacon's / 'UP-TO-DATE' / Cycling Pocket / Road-Book / OF / ENGLAND / AND WALES / Price 1s. / Cloth Gilt, / 1s.6d. / LONDON : G. W. BACON & CO., Ltd., 126, STRAND.
black on red; gentleman cycling a safety bicycle
inscription:- colophon: printed page 217
PRINTED BY NEILL AND CO., LTD., EDINBURGH.
wxh:- 7.5x15.5cm
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