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 road, Carlisle to Brampton S |
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| road, Carlisle to Brampton S: Act of Parliament | ||
| evidence:- | Act of Parliament:- Turnpike Acts |
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| source data:- | Turnpike Acts, relevant to Westmorland, Cumberland, etc, passed at various dates in
the 18th-19th centuries. goto source 9 Geo IV c.20, 1828 "An Act for making and maintaining a Turnpike Road from the City of Carlisle in the County of Cumberland, by way of Warwick Bridge, to the Market Town of Brampton in the said County. (3d April 1828.)" "WHEREAS the Road leading from the City of Carlisle by Warwick Bridge to the Market Town of Brampton in the County of Cumberland, is out of repair, narrow and incommodious for the passing of Cattle and Carriages, and cannot be made more direct, nor be effectually widened and kept in repair by the ordinary Course of Law; and it would be of great Convenience and Advantage, not only to the Inhabitants and Occupiers of Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments upon or adjoining the Line of the said Road, but to the Public at large, if the said Road were amended, widened, diverted, repaired, and made Turnpike ..." |
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