Old Cumbria Gazetteer |
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| Toll Bar Cottage, Penrith | ||
| Toll Bar Cottage | ||
| site name:- | road, Shap to Penrith | |
| locality:- | Kemplay Bank | |
| locality:- | Penrith | |
| civil parish:- | Penrith (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | toll gate (site) | |
| locality type:- | toll house (ex) | |
| locality type:- | buildings | |
| coordinates:- | NY52162899 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY5228 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY52 | |
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 BRS67.jpg (taken 16.10.2009)  BRS68.jpg "TOLLBAR / COTTAGE" (taken 16.10.2009) |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 59 5) placename:- Kemplay Bank TP |
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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. "Kempley Bank T.P." at a junction; gate across Shap road, and a building; possible gate on road east |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:- Toll Bar Cottage |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "TOLL BAR COTTAGE / / KEMPLEY BANK / PENRITH / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 72874 / NY5217329002" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "Early C19. Single storey cottage, roughcast, new slate roof with end chimneys. Two new windows facing road, and one on gable end, in plain stone architraves. Lower rear wing has one modern window to front and one on gable end." |
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| hearsay:- |
The old toll house here collected tolls:- |
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| "For horses, mares, geldings, cattle, sheep and rams led, driven or carried out of
the County of Cumberland, or that pass out of the County to be sold. Twopence for
every horse, mare, gelding (one penny). For every score of sheep or lambs - twopence." |
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