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  Toll Bar Cottage, Grasmere
Toll Bar Cottage, Grasmere: Act of Parliament
evidence:-   possibly 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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2 Geo III c.81, 1762  "An Act for widening, repairing and amending, the Road from Hesket, by Yewes Bridge, to Cockermouth, and from thence by Lorton, over Whinlatter, to Keswick, in the County of Cumberland; and from Keswick, by Dunmail Rays and Ambleside, to Kirkby in Kendall in the County of Westmorland; and from Plumgarth's Cross, near Kirkby in Kendall aforesaid, to the Lake called Windermere, in the County of Westmorland; and from Keswick aforesaid, to the Town of Penrith, in the County of Cumberland."
"... to erect and build One Gate, Turnpike, and Toll-house, in, upon, and across that Part of the said Road leading from Dunmail Rays towards Ambleside, between Townhead Gate, at the Entrance into a Lane called Broad-Roan Lane, and where the Road leading from the said Lane to Hawkshead separates from the Road leading to Ambleside; ..."
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