Old Cumbria Gazetteer
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| placename:- | High Street | |
| site name:- | High Street | |
| parish |
Barton parish, once in
Westmorland
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| parish |
Martindale parish, once in
Westmorland
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| parish |
Patterdale parish, once in
Westmorland
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| parish |
Shap Rural parish, once in
Westmorland
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| parish |
Lakes parish, once in
Westmorland
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| county:- | Cumbria | |
| parish |
Bampton parish, once in
Westmorland
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| roman road; road; roman site | ||
| 10Km square:- |
NY41
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| 10Km square:- |
NY42
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| 1Km square | NY41 | |
 High Street -- High Street -- Barton and Martindale etc -- Cumbria / -- On Park Fell, Troutbeck, called Scot Rake. -- 16.4.2009 | ||
 High Street -- High Street -- Barton and Martindale etc -- Cumbria / -- On Park Fell, Troutbeck, called Scot Rake. -- 16.4.2009 | ||
| old map:- |
OS County Series (Wmd 19
16)
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elsewhere on this map series called High Street
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| 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. | ||
| placename:- | Scot Rake | |
| roman road | ||
| date:- | 1890=1899 | |
| period:- | 19th century, late; 1890s | |
| source:- |
Martineau 1855
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| Guide book, A Complete Guide to the English Lakes, by Harriet Martineau, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, and by Whittaker and Co, London, 1855; published 1855-71. | ||
| Page 33:- | ||
| ... The singular valley of Troutbeck was once a wooded basin, where the terrified Britons took refuge from the Romans, while the latter were making their great road from Kendal to Penrith. That road actually ran along the very ridge of the | ||
| Page 34:- | ||
| Troutbeck hills, as any one may see who will climb the mountain called, for this reason, High Street. What a sight it must have been - the pioneers felling the trees, and paving the way, and the soldiers following, with their armour and weapons gleaming in the sun, while the trembling natives cowered in the forest below,- listening now to the blows of the workmen, and now to the warlike music of the troops, marching up from Kendal! ... | ||
| person:- | soldier | |
| date:- | 1855 | |
| period:- | 19th century, late; 1850s | |
| photographs | ||
| High Street -- High Street -- Barton and Martindale etc -- Cumbria / -- On Park Fell, Troutbeck, called Scot Rake. -- 16.4.2009 | |
| High Street -- High Street -- Barton and Martindale etc -- Cumbria / -- On Park Fell, Troutbeck. -- 16.4.2009 | |
| Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008 | ||
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