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 Lancaster Canal
Lancaster Canal: Act of Parliament
evidence:-   Act of Parliament:- Turnpike Acts
source data:-   Turnpike Acts, relevant to Westmorland, Cumberland, etc, passed at various dates in the 18th-19th centuries.
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55 Geo III c.37, 1815  "[An Act for more effectually Repairing the Road leading from Heronsyke to Kirkby in Kendal, and from thence through Shap to Eamont Bridge in the County of Westmorland, and for making a new Road from the said Road at a place called Far Cross Bank near Kirkby in Kendal, to communicate with the intended Canal from Lancaster to Kirkby in Kendal, and to join the said Road at or near a place called the Lound near Kirkby in Kendal aforesaid.]"

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