Old Cumbria Gazetteer |
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| St Helen's Toll Gate, Cockermouth | ||
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| St Helen's Toll Gate | ||
| Tollery Gate | ||
| site name:- | road, Keswick to Cockermouth | |
| civil parish:- | Cockermouth (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | toll gate (site) | |
| locality type:- | toll house | |
| coordinates:- | NY13623123 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY1331 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY13 | |
| references:- | OS County Series |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 55 1) placename:- St Helen's TP |
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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. "St Helen's T.P." at a fork; gate across one arm only, and a building |
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| evidence:- | probably old map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd) |
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| source data:- | Map, hand coloured engraving, 3x2 sheets, The County of Cumberland, scale about 1
inch to 1 mile, by Thomas Donald, engraved and published by Joseph Hodskinson, 29
Arundel Street, Strand, London, 1774. D4NY13SW.jpg "Turnp." E of Cockermouth on Keswick Road; toll house and toll gate item:- Carlisle Library : Map 2 Image © Carlisle Library |
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| evidence:- | census:- Census 1851 placename:- Tollery Gate |
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| source data:- | Census returns, published by HMSO, London, for 1851. John Cowper, collector of tolls, Tollery Gate |
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 Act of Parliament |
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| hearsay:- |
Cumberland Pacquet, 22 April 1777:- |
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| "[TOLL-GATE leading to HESKET.]" |
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| "[Notice is hereby given that the tolls arising at Cockermouth Town-Head, on the branch
of the Turnpike Road leading towards Hesket, will be LET TO FARM by auction to the
best bidder, at the house of John Meek, innholder in Cockermouth aforesaid, on Monday
the 12th Day of May next, for the term of Three Years, between the hours of Twelve
and Three of the Clock in the Afternoon, in Manner directed by the Act passed in the
13th Year of the Reign of his Majesty King George the Third, for regulating the Turnpike
Roads.]" |
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| "[The Tolls produced the last Year the sum of 50/- clear the Salary and Expenses of
collecting the same. Whoever happens to be the best Bidder must at the same Time give
Security with sufficient Sureties, to the Satisfaction of the Trustees then present,
for the monthly Payment of the Rent agreed for, to the Treasurer of the Hesket Branch.]" |
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| "[John Wren, Clerk to the Trustees]" |
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| : 1777 (22 Apr):: Cumberland Pacquet |
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