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placename:- Helsington Turn Pike
site name:- road, Lancaster to Kendal
parish Helsington parish, once in Westmorland
county:- Cumbria
toll gate
coordinates:- SD50669021
10Km square:- SD59
References OS County Series (Wmd 38)

1Km square SD5090

old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 38 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.
Helsington T.P.
gate across road, and a building

placename:- Helsington TP
toll gate
date:- 1890=1899
period:- 19th century, late; 1890s

old directory:- Parson and White 1829

Book, History, Directory, and Gazetteer, of the Counties of Cumberland and Westmorland, with that Part of the Lake District in Lancashire, forming the Lordships of Furness and Cartmel, by William Parson and William White, published by W White and Co, 1829.
Lists Henry Bell, collector at Helsington toll gate
person:- toll collector : Bell, Henry
date:- 1829
period:- 19th century, early; 1820s

Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008

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