Crosslands Farm, home of John Audland

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Fox stayed here after his triumphant meeting on Firbank Fell — and was offered a pipe of tobacco by John Story, which he tactfully accepted.
The route from Firbank Fell to Crosslands Farm (about 7 miles) is conjectural, and assumes that he and Audland started off by coming down Shackla Bank. From there the roads marked on the 1794 Cary map suggest (as does the modern road layout) that they came down the west side of the Lune valley, and turned off to the right by Cross Bank through Killington Hall and village, turning south-west at the end briefly onto the Old Scotch Road at Three Mile House. From there they possibly branched right again towards Tarneybank Tarn, and at the end of that road briefly southeast to the end of the track to Crosslands. (This is shown as a path on the 19th-century OS maps, and a bridleway on the modern OS Explorer and Landranger maps, though it is difficult to track on the Google maps.) This comes out at the crossroads with the B6254 between Kendal and Kirby Lonsdale, shown as a major road on the 1794 Cary map.

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