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toll house, Fawcett Forest
site name:-   road, Kendal to Shap
civil parish:-   Fawcett Forest (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   toll gate (site) 
locality type:-   toll house (ex) 
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   NY54640126
1Km square:-   NY5401
10Km square:-   NY50


photograph
BNL64.jpg (taken 30.3.2007)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series
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.
"T.P."

evidence:-   road book:- Cary 1798 (2nd edn 1802) 
placename:-  Huck
source data:-   Road book, itineraries, Cary's New Itinerary, by John Cary, 181 Strand, London, 2nd edn 1802.
image CY38p267, button  goto source
image  click to enlarge
C38267.jpg
page 267-268  "Huck - T.G."
toll gate; 6m 2f from Kendal 
item:-  JandMN : 228.1
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evidence:-   old directory:- Parson and White 1829
placename:-  Bannisdale Gate
source data:-   Book, History, Directory, and Gazetteer, of the Counties of Cumberland and Westmorland, with that Part of the Lake District in Lancashire, forming the Lordships of Furness and Cartmel, by William Parson and William White, published by W White and Co, 44 Hunslet Lane, Leeds, Yorkshire, 1829.
Lists Matthew Laycock, toll collector 

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