Map 1863 Kirkgate Bitter Beck Windmill Lane NLS 229913835

Map 1863 Kirkgate Bitter Beck Windmill Lane NLS 229913835

Map 1863 Kirkgate Bitter Beck Windmill Lane

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The lower right of the map shows Windmill but the entrance to Windmill Lane was obstructed by various buildings including Fletchers warehouse, photographs on the website, and was widened in the 1930s by the demolition of Fletchers warehouses and houses to widen the access for the development of Windmill Lane Estate. Later the area above Windmill Lane estate was developed with a further housing estate.

At the top middle of the map is Waste Street, called because it led to open fields, the general term of  waste land.

On the left edge of the map are the rear of Kirkgate houses, one of which is the Miners Arms Inn. Further up the hill is the Quaker Friends Meeting House Sittings for 360 all Free with a graveyard behind. The long lane mid left was the Ropery on which the long plaiting of fibres made the ropes, note the elevated sun dial visible on the NLS zoomable map. Half way up the gardens of Kirkgate is a Sawpit. There was also one in  South Street. A Saw Pit was used with a two person saw, often the smaller (child) in the pit pulls the saw down and the stronger adult above pulls it up – I was one of those children in the 1950s and you remember to keep your eyes closed and don’t push the saw up or it jams.  Field boundaries indicate strip farming.

1863 Published: ca. 1866. Cockermouth – Cumberland LIV.4.24 Surveyed: ca. 1863,  Published: ca. 1866.

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