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  road, Cockermouth to Maryport
road, Cockermouth to Maryport: 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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6 Geo IV c.85, 1825  "An Act for more effectually amending, improving, and keeping in Repair the Road from the Town of Cockermouth to the Town of Maryport, and from thence by Allonby to Wigton, and several other Roads therein mentioned, all in the County of Cumberland. (20th May 1825.)"
"WHEREAS that part of the Highway or Road leading from the Market Town of Cockermouth to the Market Town of Maryport, which is situate between the Carlisle and Cockermouth Road and Maryport aforesaid, and from thence through the Villages of Allonby and West Newton to Blackbeck Bridge in the Parish of Wigton, the Road from the Market Town of Workington to Maryport aforesaid, and from thence through the Village of Aspatria to the first mentioned Road at or near Sandrow in the Parish of Brumfield, and the Road from West Newton through the Villages of Aspatria and Arkleby to the Turnpike Road from Carlisle to Cockermouth aforesaid, upon Moota, all in the County of Cumberland ..."
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 NB: I have not made a systematic search for turnpike acts.
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