cross_sands_links_and_information_for_website.pdfA 20 page pdf document I have prepared all about the over-sands road is downloadable by clicking this link (or you can just read it by scrolling in the above document - click bottom right to see it full screen). It includes pictures, extracts from books and links to further information and reading.
Over Sands Coaches Timetable 1848
Paintings of the Lancaster Sands and the road across the sands
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An etching from a picture by Turner - Lancaster Sands c1828 (Tate Gallery)
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Turner - Lancaster Sands c1825 (Tate Gallery)
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Sands Road by Charles Jopling, 1843
David Cox - Sketch for 'Crossing Lancaster Sands' Date unknown. (Tate Gallery)
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Turner - Lancaster Sands (Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery)
David Cox - On Lancaster Sands, Sunset - 1835
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Lancaster Sands 1842 – David Cox the Elder
Crossing Lancaster Sands - David Cox the Elder (Whitworth Museum, Manchester)
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Crossing Lancaster Sands c1834-1840 – David Cox the Elder
Lancaster Sands, Morecambe Bay, Shrimping - James Baker Pyne, 1864
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David Cox - Crossing Lancaster Sands, 1839
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Lancaster Sands, Lancashire
by William Powell Frith and Thomas Creswick, 1848
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Coach Crossing Lancaster Sands c1820 – Unknown Artist
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David Cox - Crossing Lancaster Sands
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Guide Stone in Cartmel for the Over Sands Roads to Lancaster and Ulverston
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Books about the Cross Sands Road
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Crossing Lancaster Sands
A really interesting booklet by the Ruskin Museum & Heysham Heritage Association.
Copies are available from Lancaster TIC at £1.50
Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society (CWAAS) 1884
The CWAAS has been going since 1866.
Two articles of note:
In 1883 a paper was read at Kirkby Lonsdale entitled "the Guides over the Kent and Levens Sands, Morecambe Bay" by John Fell. It is probably the most comprehensive summary of the road across the sands, and well worth a read. A copy exists in the local reference section of Kendal Library.
Map and cover will enlarge - run slideshow to see the rest.
In 1935 a further paper (Cuthbert Woods) was read about the Oversands Route (bottom)
In 1935 a further paper (Cuthbert Woods) was read about the Oversands Route (bottom)
