Old Cumbria Gazetteer

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	toll gate, Calder Bridge
	perhaps
locality:-	Calder Bridge
civil parish:-	St Bridget Beckermet (formerly Cumberland)
county:-	Cumbria
locality type:-	toll gate (site)
coordinates:-	NY041060 (?)
1Km square:-	NY0406
10Km square:-	NY00
evidence:-	possibly old text:- Gents Mag item:-  riot
source data:-	Magazine, The Gentleman's Magazine or Monthly Intelligencer or Historical Chronicle, published by Edward Cave under the pseudonym Sylvanus Urban, and by other publishers, London, monthly from 1731 to 1922.   goto source Gentleman's Magazine 1753 p.342  "... ..." "Whitehaven in Cumberland, July 10. On Wednesday June 20, in the night, a tumultuous, rabble of 4 or 500 people, pull'd down and destroyed the turnpike at Balder Bridge (which they have done twice before within these two years) threatning the lives, and to burn the houses, of some of the neighbouring gentlemen." "... ..."

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