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Prior to decent roads and railways I used to looks for the nearest river or canal which people and their families travelled along. Or else a regular drovers trail used by cattle men, shepherds and also men driving flocks of geese. As you are researching weavers that suggests some people might have travelled by water where water mills powered the looms.
When I was reseaching Aberdeen in Scotland I came across a ship owner whose advert stated his ship could reach London in southern England in six hours, compared to today's modern travel by road which will take nine hours (!).
I guess the weaver would be a cotton weaver in Lancashire; Usually weavers of woollens would live in Yorkshire. (Saddleworth known for weaving wool was in a Yorkshire valley near the border with Lancashire) In my Scottish weaver family one weaving mill owner brought a skilled weaver from the European continent to assist with technique.
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