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Bonning Gate Turnpike, Crook
Bonning Gate Turnpike
Chain House
site name:-   road, Kendal to Windermere Ferry (?) 
locality:-   Bonning Gate
civil parish:-   Crook (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   toll gate (site) 
coordinates:-   SD47859527
1Km square:-   SD4795
10Km square:-   SD49
references:-   OS County Series


photograph
BSL77.jpg  The house is now called Chain House.
(taken 9.4.2010)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 33 14) 
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.
"Bonning Gate T.P."
gate across Rather Heath Lane only, and a building 

evidence:-   old map:- Cooke 1802
placename:-  Bonnington Yate
source data:-   Map, Westmoreland ie Westmorland, scale about 12 miles to 1 inch, by George Cooke, 1802, published by Sherwood, Jones and Co, Paternoster Road, London, 1824.
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GRA1Wd.jpg
"Bonnington Yate"
locality 
item:-  Hampshire Museums : FA2000.62.4
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   old map:- Wallis 1810 (Wmd) 
placename:-  Bonnington Yate
source data:-   Road map, Westmoreland, scale about 19 miles to 1 inch, by James Wallis, 77 Berwick Street, Soho, 1810, published by W Lewis, Finch Lane, London, 1835?
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WAL5.jpg
"Bonnington Yate"
village, hamlet, house, ... 
item:-  JandMN : 63
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evidence:-   notice:- 
placename:-  Bonningate Chain
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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