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Ex
Pannus Ad Panem
The
Miller's Way Reinterpreted
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The
motto of Kendal is
Pannus
Mihi Panis.
Wool Is My Bread (or more
literally cloth is my bread).
This
story, however, is more one of Ex
Pannus Ad Panem
Or
in English: From Wool To Bread.
It
is based on: The
Miller's Way - A Journey of Destiny.
This ought not
be confused with The Miller's Tale, the second of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (1380s-1390s), as
told by the drunken miller, Robyn.
The
Miller's Way
is a memorial to a far more sober miller, the Quaker
Jonathan Dodgson Carr, to celebrate his setting off from Kendal, by foot and horse-drawn
carriage, to Carlisle to set up a flour mill and bakery
in 1831.
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This
remains one of the lesser known long distance walks. Even though it starts in the centre of Kendal,
few local folk are aware of its existance.
Despite
what the Carrs
Breadmakers
(note the fashionably dropped apostrophe) website says,
asking for the guide book in local book shops or at
the Quaker Meeting House is likely to be greeted with a blank
stare followed by "Never heard of it!"
However,
it is available for purchase via the website and, a
new development since I parted with my £2.99,
a revised edition is available as a free
download.
Ex
Pannus Ad Panem is our reinterpretation
of The
Miller's Way
which might or might not follow
either its exact route or that of the guidebook. Our
companions on this Journey of Destiny are Ian and Cynthia, provided we
can synchorise all our increasingly complicated diaries!
We hope Jonathan Dodgson Carr would have approved
of this:
The
Miller's Way Reinterpreted!
The
MIller's Way: Kendal to Carlisle
This
one inch to the mile1675 scroll cartouche (i.e. strip
map) by John Ogilby, His Majesty's Cosmographer, shows
a section of
of the Road from London to Carlisle. It is the
final 78 miles from Garstang. Of greater relevance,
from Kendal it passes through Thrumby then Penrith and
Heskot before reaching its destination, 38 miles and
2 furlongs later.
Emmanuel
Bowen's 1720 similar styled but more portable maps,
being half the scale and half the page size, reckons
the distance to be nearer 45 miles. It is a forerunner
of more modern travel guides in the way that it includes
descriptions of the larger places through which the
route passes.
Although
these maps predate Mr Carr's trek by over a century,
he followed broadly the same route.
Our
journey is based on one designed by Stan Benson, Mabel
Little and Tony Iles which takes a not dissimilar course
although covering 51 miles, reflecting its scenic detours
and, no doubt, more accurate measurement.
Long
Walk to Success
In
2006, the Carlisle based paper News and Star carried
an article on Jonathan Dodgson Carr's journey. To discover
more, see Long
Walk to Success.
Thanks
to Carrs Breadmakers for producing The Miller's Way
guidebook
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