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road, Shap to Penrith: 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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26 Geo II c.52, 1753  "An Act for widening and repairing the High Road leading from Heron Syke which divides the Counties of Lancaster and Westmorland, to the Town of Kirkby in Kendal; and from that said Town of Kirkby in Kendal, through the Town of Shapp, to Emont Bridge, in the said County of 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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19 Geo III c.108, 1779  "An Act for enlarging the Terms and Powers of an Act made in the twenty-sixth Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Second, Intituled, An Act for widening and repairing the High Road leading from Heron Syke, which divides the Counties of Lancaster and Westmorland, to the Town of Kirkby in Kendal, and from the said Town of Kirkby in Kendal, through the Town of Shapp, to Emont Bridge, in the said County of 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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 from Heron Syke on the border with Lancashire, through Kendal, Shap, to Eamont Bridge, Westmorland.
Authorized by act in 26 Geo II, 1753; ammended in 19 Geo III, 1790; 40 Geo III, 1800; 55 Geo III, 1815; 13 and 14 Vic, 1850.

Farrer, William &Curwen, John F (ed): 1923: Records relating to the Barony of Kendale: Wilson, Titus and Son: vol.4
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 NB: I have not made a systematic search for turnpike acts.
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