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toll gate, Nether Staveley
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site name:-   road, Kendal to Windermere
locality:-   New Bridge
locality:-   Staveley
civil parish:-   Nether Staveley (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   toll gate (site) 
coordinates:-   SD47229800
1Km square:-   SD4798
10Km square:-   SD49

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 33 6) 
placename:-  
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:-   old map:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd) 
source data:-   Map, 4 sheets, The County of Westmoreland, scale 1 inch to 1 mile, surveyed 1768, and engraved and published by Thomas Jefferys, London, 1770.
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"Toll Gate"
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item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland

evidence:-   notice:- 
placename:-  Staveley Toll Gate
source data:-   "AMBLESIDE Turnpike Road. / Tolls to Let. / ... the Tolls arising at the Toll Gates upon the Ambleside Turnpike Road, called and known by the names of PLUMGARTHS, STAVELEY, BONNINGATE CHAIN, WATER HEAD, and GRASMERE TOLL GATES, will be Let by Auction, ... at the House of Mr.JOSEPH BARROW, the Commercial Inn, in Kendal ... which Tolls produced the last year as follows, that is to say,- / Plumgarths and Staveley Gate, with Bonningate Chain ... L331 / Waterhead Gate and Grasmere Gate ... L680 / Above the expenses of collecting them , ... / WILLIAM PETTY, Clerk to the Trustees ... Kendal, August 24th, 1854. / T. ATKINSON, PRINTER, KENDAL."

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