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Bransty Turnpike, Whitehaven
Bransty Turnpike
site name:-   road, Cockermouth to Whitehaven
Street:-   Bransty Road
locality:-   Bransty
civil parish:-   Whitehaven (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   toll gate (site) 
coordinates:-   NX97851991
1Km square:-   NX9719
10Km square:-   NX91
references:-   OS County Series

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 61 14) 
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.
"Bransty T.P."
gate across road and a building 

evidence:-   old map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd) 
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, 3x2 sheets, The County of Cumberland, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, by Thomas Donald, engraved and published by Joseph Hodskinson, 29 Arundel Street, Strand, London, 1774.
image
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"Turnpike"
block by road between Whitehaven and Morseby; toll house and toll gate 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Bransty Toll Bar
item:-  date stone (1854)
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"BRANSTY TOLL BAR / / BRANSTY ROAD / PARTON / COPELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 76151 / NX9781419882"

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