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 toll gate, Keswick |
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| toll gate, Keswick: 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 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." "... one other Gate or Turnpike and Toll-house in, upon, and across the said Road leading from Cockermouth to Keswick aforesaid, at or near the West End of the said Town of Keswick, between the Bridge over the River Greta, and that Place where the two Roads (leading from Keswick through Bassenthwaite towards Wigton, and that leading from Keswick over Whinlatter towards Cockermouth) do meet; ..." |
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