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Shap Gate, Shap
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Shap Gate
site name:-   road, Kendal to Shap
civil parish:-   Shap (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   toll gate (site) 
coordinates:-   NY56761261
1Km square:-   NY5612
10Km square:-   NY51
references:-   OS County Series

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 21 2) 
placename:-  Shap Gate
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.
"Shap Gate (T.P.)"
gates across both roads at the junction, and a building with a bay window, in the SE corner of the junction (not the building shown by later OS mapping) 

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