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toll gate, Cockermouth
once?
Street:-   Kirkgate
locality:-   Cockermouth
civil parish:-   Cockermouth (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   toll gate (site) 
coordinates:-   NY12423049 (about) 
1Km square:-   NY1230
10Km square:-   NY13

evidence:-   old map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd) 
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, 3x2 sheets, The County of Cumberland, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, by Thomas Donald, engraved and published by Joseph Hodskinson, 29 Arundel Street, Strand, London, 1774.
image
D41230M.jpg
"Turnpike Gate"
perhaps a toll house 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library

 Act of Parliament

notes:-  
Reading backwards from the mile marks on Greenwood's county map, 1824, this is about where the count of road distances starts.

Greenwood 1824

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