Modern day West Cumbria contained — according to the evidence of John Ogilby’s 1675 road atlas, Britannia, Volume the First, or an Illustration of the Kingdom of England and Dominion of Wales — only two roads worth mentioning …
Read MoreDirt Roads and Other Obstacles
To ride in vehicles sporting names like 'The Royal Neptune, The Eclipse, and The Perseverance must have been to imagine life beyond the earthly limitations of impassable country roads …
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Greta Bridge carries the A66 towards West Cumbria
To the Sea
A new article has been published on the A66 through Cumbria at Places journal. As I write somewhere in the article, ‘to drive the A66 is to pass between worlds, from the apparently eternal mountains to the dynamic industrial coast — from the sublime to the subliminal’ …
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