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The Nent Force Level and Brewery Shaft
Peter Wilkinson
£9.50
The Nent Force Level was probably the largest and most expensive lead mining project carried out in the North Pennines and has captured the public imagination for more than two centuries. The story of the underground canal beneath the Nent Valley
Published by :
Peter Wilkinson
Published date :
2001
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Large paperback.
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The New History of Freemasonry in the Province of Cumberland and Westmorland
Kenneth W. Bond (ed)
£20.00
County boundary re-organisation in 1974 combined the ancient counties of Cumberland and Westmorland with small enclaves of Lancashire and North Yorkshire. This new history surveys the whole range of Freemasonry in the Province.
Published by :
K.W. Bond
Published date :
1994
Format :
Large hardback.
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The North Pennines: Landscape and Legend
Iain Brown
£18.95
The North Pennines are one of our least well-known upland areas. Yet here are charming towns and villages, beautiful lakes and woodlands, spectacular waterfalls and wild hills. This fascinating landscape also reveals an area rich in people and legends - from artistic links with poets, painters and writers to the ghosts of reivers, drovers and lead miners of the past.
Published by :
Summary House Publications
Published date :
2006
Format :
Large Paperback
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The Northern Counties from AD 1000
Norman McCord: Richard Thompson
£33.99
Informative, vivid and richly illustrated, this volume in the Regional History of England series explores the history of Englands northern borders - the counties of Northumberland, Cumberland, Durham, Westmoreland and the Furness area of Lancashire.
Published by :
Addison Wesley Longman Limited
Published date :
1998
Format :
Large hardback.
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The Oaken Myths of Post - Conquest Britain: Symbolic Carvings from 1066
Thirlie Grundy
£9.99
Thirlie Grundy has taken a direct approach in answering previously unanswered questions about medieval carvings and their origins. The book is illustrated throughout with Thirlies own line drawings of the carvings, which show each one in clear detail.
Published by :
P3 Publications
Published date :
2003
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Paperback.
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The Pioneer Ramblers 1850-1940
David Hollett
£8.95
Rambling is one of the most popular outdoor activities. Historically, it owes its establishment to a reaction against mass urbanisation. This fascinating trek through rambling begins in Scotland. A chapter is dedicated to the Lake District, where
Published by :
North Wales Area of the Ramblers Association
Published date :
2002
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Paperback.
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The Place-Names of Cumberland Part One
A.M Armstrong, A. Mawer, F.M Stenton & Bruce Dickens
£40.00
This first part covers Eskdale, Cumberland and Leath Wards. Volume XXX in the English Place-Name Society series.
Published by :
Cambridge University Press
Published date :
1971
Format :
Small Hardback
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The Place-Names of Cumberland Part Three
A.M Armstrong, A. Mawer, F.M Stenton & Bruce Dickens
£40.00
This third volume includes an introduction, bibliography and abbreviations and place-name elements. It is Volume XXII in the English Place-Name Society Series.
Published by :
Cambridge University Press
Published date :
1971
Format :
Small Hardback
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The Place-Names of Cumberland Part Two
A.M. Armstrong; A. Mawer; F.M. Stenton; B. Dickens
£40.00
This second part covers Allerdale Below Derwent and Allerdale Above Derwent Wards. Volume XXI in the English Place-Name Society series.
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Cambridge University Press
Published date :
1971
Format :
Small Hardback.
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The Place-Names of Westmorland Part One
A.H. Smith
£40.00
This first part deals with the place names of the southern half of the county (Kendal Barony) and includes an historical and linguistic bibliography. Volume XLII in the English Place-Name Society series.
Published by :
Cambridge University Press
Published date :
1967
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Hardback.
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The Place-Names of Westmorland Part Two
A.H. Smith
£40.00
This second part deals with the northern half of the county (Westmorland Barony) and provides analyses of the elements and personal names found in the place names, the index, and distribution maps. Volume XLIII in the English Place-Name Society series.
Published by :
Cambridge University Press
Published date :
1967
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Hardback.
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The Port of Silloth 1859 - 2009 A Pictorial History Through the 150 Years of a Solway Port
Capt. Chris Puxley
£17.50
Within Britain's vast maritime history the small Cumbrian port of Silloth is not particularly old, nor did its form evolve from the benefit of any natural haven or river mouth.
Published by :
Bernard McCall
Published date :
August 2009
Format :
214mm x 300mm hardback
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The Postcards of Edward H. Thompson
£5.00
This CD contains illustrations of some 150 postcards based on the superb watercolour paintings of Edward H. Thompson, together with background information etc.
Published by :
John Higham
Published date :
2003
Format :
CD Rom
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The Quakers in North-West England: And Sometime Upon the Hills
Donald A. Rooksby
£5.00
A guidebook to places of Quaker interest in Cumbria, North Lancashire, the Yorkshire Dales and the Pennines.
Published by :
Donald A. Rooksby
Published date :
1998
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Paperback.
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The Quakers of Mosedale
Mollie Grubb
£6.50
2002 is the 300th anniversary of the settling of the meeting in Mosedale Meeting House. It is an appropriate time to bring out this second edition, which was first published in 1976.
Published by :
Mosedale Preparative Meeting
Published date :
2002
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Paperback.
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The Register of John Kirkby, Bishop of Carlisle 1332-1352
R.L. Storey (ed)
£30.00
Published by :
Canterbury and York
Published date :
1995
Format :
Hardback.
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The Reivers
Alistair Moffat
£16.99
From the early fourteenth century to the end of the sixteenth, the Anglo-Scottish borderlands witnessed one of the most intense periods of warfare and disorder ever seen in modern Europe.
Published by :
Birlinn
Published date :
June 2007
Format :
165mm x 240mm hardback
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The Reivers - The Story of the Border Reivers
Alistair Moffat
£9.99
Only one period in history is immediately, indelibly and uniquely linked to the whole area of the Scottish and English Border country, and that is the time of the Reivers.
Published by :
Birlinn
Published date :
March 2008
Format :
130mm x 198mm paperback
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The Reivers DVD
Fiona Armtrong & Alistair Moffat
£12.99
From the early fourteenth century to the end of the sixteenth, the Anglo-Scottish borderlands witnessed one of the most intense periods of warfare and disorder ever seen in modern Europe.
Published by :
Northern Heritage
Published date :
February 2008
Format :
PAL DVD 135mm x 190mm
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The Romford Outrage - The Murder of Inspector Thomas Simmons, 1885
Linda Rhodes & Kathryn Abnett
£12.99
Following the success of their prize-winning account of the infamous killing of PC George Clark - The Dagenham Murder - Linda Rhodes and Kathryn Abnett now reconstruct, in vivid detail, another sensational Victorian murder case.
Published by :
Pen & Sword Books Ltd
Published date :
February 2009
Format :
234mm x 156mm softback
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The Solitude of Mountains
Stephen Hebron Conal Shields & TimothyWilcox
£22.50
This beautifully produced book is the first full treatment of John Constable's tour of the Lake District in September and October 1806.
Published by :
Wordsworth Trust
Published date :
2006
Format :
210 x 284mm paperback
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The Spectral Army of Souther Fell
Stephen Matthews
£12.00
The Spectral Army of Souther Fell is one of the most famous and best authenticated of all ghost stories.
Published by :
BOOKCASE
Published date :
2011
Format :
148mm x 210mm paperback
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The Stanegate
Frank Graham
£1.50
An historical survey of Corbridge, Vindolanda and Carvoran in the days of the Romans.
Published by :
Frank Graham
Published date :
1981
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Paperback.
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The Steel Bonnets: The Story of the Anglo-Scottish Border Reivers
George MacDonald Fraser
£12.99
The classic history of the Border Reivers told by Carlisle born George Macdonald Fraser
Published by :
HarperCollins
Published date :
1995
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Paperback.
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The Story of the Lakeland Dales
Robert Gambles
£15.99
A detailed and informative book for the curious traveller and interested resident alike, with facts on human settlement, pre-historic stone circles, rivers famous for their pearls, murder in Miterdale and much more. A fascinating guide to the area.
Published by :
Phillimore
Published date :
1997
Format :
Large hardback.
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