A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
HIGH STREET, a mountain ridge in Westmoreland; dividing Kentmere from Troutheck, and extending northward to Swarth fell between the vale of the Lowther. and the lower part of Ulles water. It culminates in a summit 2, 700 feet high, at the divergence of Kentmere, Troutheck, Patterdale, and Mardale; and it has also the summits of Yoke, Hill-Bell, and Froswick to the S, and those of Kidsty Pike and Lade Pot to the N. A Roman road, going up from Kendal, went along the ridge; passed within a few feet of the culminating summit; was the loftiest road ever formed in England; and gave rise to the seemingly anomalous name of High Street. Many parts of the ridge command splendid views.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a mountain ridge" (ADL Feature Type: "ridges") |
| Administrative units: | Westmorland AncC |
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