OS One-Inch Old Series / First Edition Map Viewer (Sheet 92)

Ordnance Survey One-Inch First Edition Old Map of Westmorland, Lancashire north of the sands, Cumberland fringe: Old Series map of OS Old Series Map Sheet 92 (Central Lake District, Windermere and Ambleside district inferred).

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Landscape and Archaeological Assessment

Landscape Classification

This sheet represents a high upland and dale landscape landscape, characterised by deep dales, watershed ridges, moorland, lead-mining landscapes and route passes.

Archaeological Landscape

The primary archaeological theme is deep dales, watershed ridges, moorland, lead-mining landscapes and route passes archaeology. Enhanced prediction from Roman-road, ridgeway, hillfort/enclosure, villa/estate, road-convergence, coastal/marsh-edge and river-crossing logic.

High Visibility Locations

Wensleydale/Ure Valley Settlement Belt, Swaledale Upland Mining and Route Belt

Terrain Archaeology

The terrain is interpreted using hachures. Relief is represented by hachures, allowing inference of ridgeways, high points, spur ends, valley approaches and likely route/crossing logic.

Main Geographic Information

Sheet XCII / 92 is represented by a high-relief Lake District montage. The terrain is strongly diagnostic of central Lakeland around Windermere/Ambleside/Coniston, though exact edges are provisional.

Main Landscape Features

Sheet 92 shows a mixed area of upland lake district mountain and lake basinshigh upland and dale landscape deep dales, watershed ridges, moorland, lead-mining landscapes and route passes high mountain relief, lake basins, glacial valleys and compact settlements . The map is useful for studying early 19th Century historic settlement patterns, Roman road alignments, early archaeological site indentification, how roads, old tracks, lanes and paths, villages, waterways and field systems related to the wider nineteenth-century landscape.

Main Geographic Features

Archaeological Predictions

Archaeological Hotspots

Wensleydale/Ure Valley Settlement Belt is interpreted as a valley route, farmstead and estate archaeology landscape. Swaledale Upland Mining and Route Belt is interpreted as a lead-mining, ridgeway and settlement archaeology landscape. Pennine Passes and Watershed Routes is interpreted as a prehistoric/Roman high-route and enclosure potential landscape.

Historic Routes, Crossings and Connections

Wensleydale - Swaledale corridor is interpreted as a route/river/coastal corridor. Historic crossing points where roads, trackways or routeways converge on significant water features are widely recognised as archaeological hotspots. Crossing points often acted as gateways within the historic landscape. Because movement was channelled through these locations, archaeological evidence may occur both at the crossing itself and along the routes leading towards it, forming broader zones of archaeological potential rather than isolated sites.Swaledale regional route corridor is interpreted as a settlement and topographic route corridor. Historic crossing points where roads, trackways or routeways converge on significant water features are widely recognised as archaeological hotspots. Crossing points often acted as gateways within the historic landscape. Because movement was channelled through these locations, archaeological evidence may occur both at the crossing itself and along the routes leading towards it, forming broader zones of archaeological potential rather than isolated sites.

Historic Gateways and Crossing Places

Wensleydale crossing/route node is a river crossing or upland pass route node. Swaledale crossing/route node is a river crossing or upland pass route node. Richmond fringe crossing/route node is a river crossing or upland pass route node.

Main Places