In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Green Road like this:

GREEN ROAD, a railway station in Cumberland; on the Whitehaven and Furness Junction railway, adjacent to the Duddon estuary and the boundary with Lancashire, 4¼ miles SSW of Broughton-in-Furgess.

Green Road through time

Green Road is now part of CUMBERLAND Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how CUMBERLAND has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Green Road itself, go to Statistics.

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Green Road in Cumberland | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/25909

Date accessed: 09th April 2026


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