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placename:- Tollbar Cottage
site name:- road, Ambleside to Keswick
locality:- Castlerigg
parish Keswick parish, once in Cumberland
county:- Cumbria
toll gate; toll house; building/s
coordinates:- NY27732323
10Km square:- NY22

1Km square NY2723

photograph

Tollbar Cottage -- road, Ambleside to Keswick -- Castlerigg -- Keswick -- Cumbria / -- 25.5.2007

old map (vignette):- Burrow 1920s

Road strip maps with parts in Westmorland, Cumberland etc, now Cumbria, irregular scale about 1.5 miles to 1 inch, by E J Burrow and Co, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, 1920s.
thumbnail EJB3Vg42, button to large image
date:- 1920=1929
period:- 1920s

old directory:- Jollie 1811 -- probably relevant

Scott, John, Brow-top toll-gate

placename:- Brow Top Tollgate
date:- 1811
period:- 19th century, early; 1810s

old map:- Clarke 1787 map (Der)

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
toll house, but no line across the road to Ambleside
date:- 1787
period:- 18th century, late; 1780s

Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008

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