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Poulton
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Morecambe
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Lancashire
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All that is left of Poulton is the parish name Poulton
Bare, the rest is submerged under Morecambe.
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Ford 1839 map
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Map of the Lake District, published in A Description of
Scenery in the Lake District, by William Ford, published by
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Poulton
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Poulton
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Lancashire
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1839
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19th century, early; 1830s
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Otley 1818
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New Map of the District of the Lakes, in Westmorland,
Cumberland, and Lancashire, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch,
by Jonathan Otley, engraved by J and G Menzies, Edinburgh,
Lothian, Scotland, published by J Otley, Keswick, Cumberland
now Cumbria, 1818; pblished 1818 to 1850s. |
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Poulton
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West 1784 map
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A Map of the Lakes in Cumberland, Westmorland and
Lancashire, now Cumbria, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch,
engraved by Paas, 53 Holborn, London, included in the Guide
to the Lakes by Thomas West, published by William
Pennington, Kendal, Westmorland, and in London, from the 3rd
edition 1784, to 1821. |
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Poulton
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descriptive text:- |
West 1778 (11th edn 1821)
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Guide book, A Guide to the Lakes, by Thomas West,
published by William Pennington, Kendal, Cumbria once
Westmorland, and in London, 1778 to 1821. |
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Addendum; Mr Gray's Journal, 1769
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Page 217:-
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Oct. 11. I crossed the river and walked over a peninsula
three miles, to the village of Poulton, which stands on the
beach. An old fisherman mending his nets (while I enquired
about the danger of passing those sands) told me, in his
dialect, a moving story, how a brother of the trade, a
Cockler, as he styled him, driving a little cart with two
daughters (women grown) in it, and his wife on horseback
following, set out one day to cross the seven mile sands, as
they had frequently been used to do; (for nobody in the
village knew them better than the old man did) when they
were about half-way over, a thick fog rose, and as they
advanced they found the water much deeper than they
expected; the old man was puzzled; he stopped, and said he
would go a little way to find some mark he was acquainted
with; they staid a while for him, but in vain; they called
aloud, but no reply; at last the young woman pressed the
mother to think where they were, and go on; she would not
leave the place; she wandered about forlorn and amazed; she
would not quit her horse and get into the cart with them;
they determined after much time wasted, to turn back, and
give themselves up to the guidance of their horses. The old
woman was soon washed off, and perished; the poor girls
clung close to their cart, and
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the horse, sometimes wading and sometimes swimming, brought
them back to land alive, but senseless with terror and
distress, and unable for many days to give any account of
themselves. The bodies of their parents were found the next
ebb: that of the father a very few paces distant from the
spot where he had left them.
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Poulton
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date:-
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1769
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18th century, late; 1760s
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Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008
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