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  road, Wigton to Silloth
road, Wigton to Silloth: 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 and widening the Road from Raffles, near the City of Carlisle, to Wigton, and from thence to the South End of Hunda Lane; and also the Road from Wigton to Abbey Holme, and from Wigton to Chalkbeck, in the County of Cumberland."
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 NB: I have not made a systematic search for turnpike acts.
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