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Molds Turnpike, Kaber
Molds Turnpike
site name:-   road, Brough to Reeth
locality:-   Molds Hill
locality:-   Kaber Fell
civil parish:-   Kaber (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   toll gate (site) 
locality type:-   toll house (ruin) 
coordinates:-   NY87720857
1Km square:-   NY8708
10Km square:-   NY80
references:-   OS County Series

MN photo:-  
Not untypical weather on Stainmore. The toll house is attached to a sheepfold; perhaps it was a shepherd's hut as well.

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BRZ77.jpg (taken 22.1.2010)  
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BRZ82.jpg  Toll gate site, top of Molds Hill.
(taken 22.1.2010)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 24) 
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.
"Molds T.P."


photograph
BRZ78.jpg (taken 22.1.2010)  
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BRZ79.jpg (taken 22.1.2010)  
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BRZ80.jpg  Fire grate and oven.
(taken 22.1.2010)  
photograph
BRZ81.jpg  Walling.
(taken 22.1.2010)  

also see:-    sheepfold, Molds Hill

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