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placename:- Causeway Foot
other name:- Causeway Foot Farm
parish St John's Castlerigg and Wythburn parish, once in Cumberland
county:- Cumbria
building/s
coordinates:- NY29332181
10Km square:- NY22

1Km square NY2921

photograph

Causeway Foot -- St John's Castlerigg and Wythburn -- Cumbria / -- 19.9.2006

old map:- Clarke 1787 map (Ambleside to Keswick)

Map series, lakes and roads to the Lakes, by James Clarke, engraved by S J Neele, 352 Strand, London, included in A Survey of the Lakes of Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire, published by James Clarke, Penrith, and in London etc, from 1787 to 1793.
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Cawsey foot

placename:- Cawsey Foot
house
date:- 1787
period:- 18th century, late; 1780s

descriptive text:- West 1778 (11th edn 1821)

Guide book, A Guide to the Lakes, by Thomas West, published by William Pennington, Kendal, Cumbria once Westmorland, and in London, 1778 to 1821.
image WS21P210, button   goto source.
Addendum; Mr Gray's Journal, 1769
Page 210:-
...
Oct. 8. I left Keswick, and took the Ambleside road, ... good country road, through sound but narrow and stony ones, very safe in broad day light. This is the case about Causeway foot and among Naddle-fells, to Langthwaite.

placename:- Causeway Foot
date:- 1769
period:- 18th century, late; 1760s

Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008

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