Old Cumbria Gazetteer

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	placename:-	Ulverston Canal
	locality:-	Ulverston
	parish	Ulverston parish, once in Lancashire
	county:-	Cumbria
		canal
	coordinates:-	SD29397852, SD31317768
	10Km square:-	SD27
	10Km square:-	SD37
	1Km square	SD2978
		Ulverston Canal -- Ulverston -- Ulverston -- Cumbria / -- Lock at canal foot. -- 10.7.2006
		Ulverston Canal -- Ulverston -- Ulverston -- Cumbria / -- Canal Head. -- 10.7.2006
	old map:-	OS County Series (Lan 16 4)
		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:-	Ulverston Canal
		canal
	date:-	1890=1899
	period:-	19th century, late; 1890s
	guide book:-	Barber 1873
		Guide book, The Tourist's Picturesque Guide to Furness Abbey, the Vicinity, and Lakes Coniston and Windermere, by Henry Barber, published by The Graphotyping Co, 7 Garrick Street and Simpkin, Marshall and Co, Stationers' Hall Court, London, and by J Atkinson, King Street, Ulverston, Cumberland, 5th edn about 1873.
		HILL OF HOAD
	date:-	1873
	period:-	19th century, late; 1870s
	old map:-	Garnett 1850s-60s H
		Map of the English Lakes, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, 1850s-60s.
		bold line
	date:-	1850=1869
	period:-	19th century, late; 1850s; 1860s
	old map:-	Ford 1839 map
		Map of the Lake District, published in A Description of Scenery in the Lake District, by William Ford, published by Charles Thurnham, London, 1839.
	county:-	Lancashire
	date:-	1839
	period:-	19th century, early; 1830s
	descriptive text:-	Ford 1839 (3rd edn 1843)
		Description of Scenery in the Lake District, by William Ford, published by Charles Thurnham, London, et al, 1839; published 1839-52.
		Page 4:-
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		[Ulverston] ... Being about a mile from the Leven, a canal, cut in 1795, enables vessels of small tonnage to come up to the town. Considerable quantities of iron-ore and wrought-iron are exported to different places. ...
	date:-	1839
	period:-	19th century, early; 1830s
	descriptive text:-	Otley 1823 (5th edn 1834)
		Guidebook, Concise Description of the English Lakes, later A Description of the English Lakes, by Jonathan Otley, published by the author, Keswick, Cumberland, by J Richardson, London, and by Arthur Foster, Kirky Lonsdale, Cumbria, 1823 onwards.
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		Page 95:-
		... It [Ulverston] communicates with the channel of the Leven by a canal admitting vessels of considerable burden.
	date:-	1823
	period:-	19th century, early; 1820s
	source:-	Otley 1818
		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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		Canal
	Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008

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