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road, Penrith to Carlisle: 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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26 Geo II c.40?, 1753  "An Act for repairing the Roads from the City of Carlisle, to the Town of Penrith in the County of Cumberland, and from the said Town of Penrith, to Emont Bridge, which divides the Counties of Cumberland and Westmorland."

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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38 Geo III c.28, 1798  "An Act for Continuing for Twenty-one Years, and from thence to the End of the then next Session of Parliament, the Term, and Altering and Enlarging the Powers, of Two Acts, made in the twenty-sixth Year of the Reign of King George the Second and the Nineteenth Year of his present Majesty, for repairing the Road from the City of Carlisle to the Town of Penrith, in the County of Cumberland, and from the said Town of Penrith to Emont Bridge, which divides the Counties of Cumberland and Westmorland."

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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48 Geo III c.28, 1808  "An Act for continuing the Term and altering the Powers of several Acts, for repairing the Road from Carlisle [to] Penrith, and from Penrith to Eamont Bridge, in the County of Cumberland."

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NB: I have not made a systematic search for turnpike acts.

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