Green plaque № 11550

Milnthorpe, Westmorland and Furness, England, United Kingdom

Haverflatts Lane. The lane leads to Lower and High Haverflatts Lane a mile away. Its name derives from the Norse Viking word 'haver' for bread or oats and 'flatts' meaning farmland. The Coach and Horses dates from the eighteenth century when Milnthorpe had eleven inns. The shop on the corner once ca

lled Thorpe Cottage possessed a deep well until it became the premises of Rushtons' Chemist s in 1852. The site of the present chemist's shop, built in 1992, was occupied formerly by a mill and then f

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