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placename:- Toll Bar Cottage
other name:- Grasmere Turnpike
site name:- Dunmail Raise
site name:- road, Ambleside to Keswick
locality:- Town Head
parish Lakes parish, once in Westmorland
county:- Cumbria
toll gate; building/s; toll house
coordinates:- NY33390992
10Km square:- NY30

1Km square NY3309

photograph

Toll Bar Cottage -- Dunmail Raise -- road, Ambleside to Keswick -- Town Head -- Lakes -- Cumbria / -- 15.2.2006

old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 18 12)

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

placename:- Grasmere Turn Pike
toll gate
date:- 1890=1899
period:- 19th century, late; 1890s

old map:- Clarke 1787 map (Ambleside to Keswick)

Map series, lakes and roads to the Lakes, by James Clarke, engraved by S J Neele, 352 Strand, London, included in A Survey of the Lakes of Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire, published by James Clarke, Penrith, and in London etc, from 1787 to 1793.
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Turnpike Gate
Marked by a line across the road, and a house adjacent.
date:- 1787
period:- 18th century, late; 1780s

Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008

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