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| Toll Bar Cottage, Keswick | ||
| Toll Bar Cottage | ||
| site name:- | road, Penrith to Keswick | |
| locality:- | Brigham | |
| locality:- | Keswick | |
| civil parish:- | Keswick (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | toll gate (site) | |
| locality type:- | toll house | |
| locality type:- | buildings | |
| coordinates:- | NY27442381 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY2723 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY22 | |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 64 2) |
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| source data:- | Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25
inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton,
Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948. "TP" line across the road |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Clarke 1787 map (Der) |
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| source data:- | Map, uncoloured engraving, Map of Derwentwater and its Environs,
scale about 13 ins to 1 mile, by James Clarke, engraved by S J
Neele, published by James Clarke, Penrith, Cumberland and in
London etc, 1787. CL152623.jpg "Turnpike Gate" line across road to Penrith, and toll house item:- private collection : 169 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old directory:- Jollie 1811 placename:- Brigham Tollgate |
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| source data:- | Guide book, Jollie's Cumberland Guide and Directory, published
by Francis Jollie and Sons, Carlisle, Cumberland, 1811. "Foster Thomas, Brigham toll-gate" |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Martineau 1855 |
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| source data:- | Guide book, A Complete Guide to the English Lakes, by Harriet
Martineau, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland,
and by Whittaker and Co, London, 1855; published 1855-76. goto sourcePage 92:- "... At the distance of half-a-mile from Keswick, on the Penrith road, just through the toll-bar, a bridge crosses the Greta. ..." |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:- Toll Bar Cottage |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "TOLL BAR COTTAGE / / CHESTNUT HILL / KESWICK / ALLERDALE / CUMBRIA / II / 71768 / NY2744323806" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "Late C18, stone and slate with a slate roof, 1 and 2 storeys, built on hillside. Casement windows with small panes. Polygonal projection with pyramidal roof, a blocked round-arched window in front on ground floor, a small window above, and a casement on ground floor at each side. Single storeyed flanking wings with catslide roofs." |
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