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| Toll Bar Cottage, Grasmere | ||
| Toll Bar Cottage | ||
| Grasmere Turnpike | ||
| site name:- | Dunmail Raise | |
| site name:- | road, Ambleside to Keswick | |
| locality:- | Town Head | |
| locality:- | Grasmere | |
| civil parish:- | Lakes (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | toll gate (site) | |
| locality type:- | buildings | |
| locality type:- | toll house | |
| coordinates:- | NY33390992 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY3309 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY30 | |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 18 12) placename:- Grasmere Turn Pike |
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| source data:- | Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25
inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton,
Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948. "Grasmere T.P." gate across road and a building |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd) |
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| source data:- | Map, 4 sheets, The County of Westmoreland, scale 1 inch to 1
mile, surveyed 1768, and engraved and published by Thomas
Jefferys, London, 1770. J5NY31SW.jpg "Toll Gate" circle item:- National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47 Image © National Library of Scotland |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Clarke 1787 map (Ambleside to Keswick) |
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| source data:- | Map, A Map of the Roads Lakes etc between Keswick and Ambleside,
scale about 2.5 ins to 1 mile, by James Clarke, engraved by S J
Neele, 352 Strand, published by James Clarke, Penrith,
Cumberland and in London etc, 1787. CL9NY30E.jpg "Turnpike Gate" Marked by a line across the road, and a house adjacent. item:- private collection : 10.9 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Cary 1789 (edn 1805) |
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| source data:- | Map, uncoloured engraving, Westmoreland, scale about 2.5 miles
to 1 inch, by John Cary, London, 1789; edition 1805. CY24NY31.jpg "Toll Gate" building by road item:- JandMN : 129 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | notice:- placename:- Grasmere Toll Gate |
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| source data:- | "AMBLESIDE Turnpike Road. / Tolls to Let. / ... the Tolls arising at the Toll Gates
upon the Ambleside Turnpike Road, called and known by the names of PLUMGARTHS, STAVELEY,
BONNINGATE CHAIN, WATER HEAD, and GRASMERE TOLL GATES, will be Let by Auction, ...
at the House of Mr.JOSEPH BARROW, the Commercial Inn, in Kendal ... which Tolls produced
the last year as follows, that is to say,- / Plumgarths and Staveley Gate, with Bonningate
Chain ... L331 / Waterhead Gate and Grasmere Gate ... L680 / Above the expenses of
collecting them , ... / WILLIAM PETTY, Clerk to the Trustees ... Kendal, August 24th,
1854. / T. ATKINSON, PRINTER, KENDAL." |
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