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  toll gate, Waterhead
toll gate, Waterhead: 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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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 Turnpike-Gate and Toll-house in, upon, and across the said Road on the South side of Ambleside, at or near a Place called Waterhead, after the Roads leading from the said Town of Ambleside, and from a Place called Hard Knot, towards Kendall, are united; ..."
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