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 road, Kirkby Stephen to Hawes |
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| road, Kirkby Stephen to Hawes: Act of Parliament | ||
| evidence:- | Act of Parliament:- Turnpike Acts item:- toll gate; deposited plans |
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| source data:- | Turnpike Acts, relevant to Westmorland, Cumberland, etc, passed at various dates in
the 18th-19th centuries. goto source 6 Geo IV c.12, 1825 "An Act for making and maintaining a Turnpike Road from Kirkby Stephen, in the County of Westmorland, into the Sedbergh and Kirkby Kendal Turnpike Road, and out of and from the same Turnpike Road, to Hawes in the North Riding of the County of York, and a New Branch from Hawes aforesaid to the village of Gayle, in the Township of Hawes. (23d March 1825.)" "WHEREAS the Widening, altering, diverting, turning, improving, and making Turnpike a Road leading from Kirkby Stephen, in the County of Westmorland, through the several Townships of Kirkby Stephen, Nateby, Wharton, and Mallerstang, in the said County, or some of them, and through the Townships of Higher Abbotside and Hawes, both in the Parish of Aisgarth, in the North Riding of the County of York, or one of them, into that Part of the Sedbergh and Kirkby Kendal Turnpike Road, which leads from the Town of Sedbergh, in the Parish of Sedbergh, in the West Riding of the County of York, to Bracken Bar Gate, near Askrigg, in the Parish of Aisgarth, in the North Riding of the said County, at or near a certain Place called the Guide Post on Mosdale, from the said Turnpike Road, at or near a certain Place called New Houses in the same Parish, through the Townships of Higher Abbotside and Hawes, to the Town of Hawes, in the said North Riding of the County of York, and from thence to the Village of Gayle in the Township of Hawes; and the making and maintaining a Diversion from the said Line of Road, at and from or nearly at a certain Place called Water Gate in the Township of Mallerstang aforesaid, unto or near unto a certain Place called Pen-Dragon Castle in the same Township all in the Parish of Kirkby Stephen aforesaid; and the making and maintaining another Diversion from the said Line of Road, at and from or nearly at a certain Place called Thrang Bridge, at the Foot of the Mountain Waud in the Township of Mallerstang, unto or near unto a certain Place called Shaw Paddock, in the Township of Hawes aforesaid, ..." Mentions deposited plans:- "And whereas a Map or Plan describing the Line of Road, ... together with a Book of Reference, containing a List of the Names of the Owners and Occupiers ... have been deposited at the Office of the Clerk of the Peace for the said County of Westmorland, and ..." Mentions toll gates and houses:- "... it shall be lawful for the said Trustees to erect and set up or build, or cause to be erected and set up or built upon, in, or across the said Roads, or on the Sides thereof, or any Part thereof, when, where, and as they shall judge necessary, any Gate or Gates, Turnpike or Turnpikes, Side Gate or Side Gates, Side Bar or Side Bars, or Chain or Chains, and any Weighing Machine or Weighing Machines, and also one or more Toll House or Toll Houses, with Out-houses and Conveniences suitable thereto, at or near each Toll Gate and Weighing Machine, and to take in or inclose on the Sides of the said Roads suitable Garden Spots for such Toll House or Toll Houses, not exceeding One-eighth Part of a Statute Acre each, as they shall think necessary, ..." Old roads:- "... and whereas the making of the said new Pieces of Road will render useless and unnecessary a certain old Road leading from Thrang Bridge over the Mountain Waud, and extending to Hell Gill Bridge, and also the present Road leading from Thrang Bridge aforesaid, to Aisgill, up the Vale of Mallerstang; ..." may be stopped up by the trustees and cease to be common highways. |
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from Kirkby Stephen, through Mallerstang, to Hell's Gill on the Sedbergh to Kirkby
Lonsdale turnpike, Westmorland |
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| Authorized by act 6 Geo IV, 1825; and 15, 16 Vic, 1852. |
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| Farrer, William &Curwen, John F (ed): 1923: Records relating to the Barony of Kendale:
Wilson, Titus and Son: vol.4 Curwen, John F: 1932: Later Records Relating to North Westmorland or the Barony of Appleby: Wilson, Titus and Son: vol.8 |
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