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(5a) Kirkby-in-Kendal, Ambleside, and Keswick Road, 44 Geo. 3. c. 20 

 containing and enlarging 2 Geo. 3. c. 81 and 23 Geo. 3. c. 108, repealing 

 the above Acts 5 Geo. 4. c. 14. 



(6) Kirkby Kendal and Kirkby Ireleth Road, i Geo. 4. c. 18, enlarging 



terms and powers of 3 Geo. 3. c. 33 and 39 Geo. 3. c. 24. 



(7) Kirkby Stephen and Hawes Road, 6 Geo. 4. c. 12, repealed and new 



provisions made by 15 and 16 Vict. c. 89. 



(8) Kirkby Stephen, High-lane-head, Sedbergh, and Greta Bridge Roads, 



45 Geo. 3. c. 27, continuing and altering powers of 2 Geo. 3. c. 

 38 and 24 Geo. 3. c. 70. The above 3 Acts repealed and new provision 

 made by 7 Geo. 4. c. 72. 



(9) Milnthorpe and Levens Road, 41 Geo. 3. c. 36, continuing and enlarging 



powers of 32 Geo. 2. c. 69 and 20 Geo. 3. c. 88. Repeahng the above 

 Acts 3 Geo. 4. c. 12. Repealed and new provisions made by 14 

 and 15 Vict. c. 17. 



On the Heron Syke and Eamont Bridge road there were five toll- 

 gates ; the rents paid by the persons who farmed the tolls in 1823 

 were : — Burton Gate, £258 iis. 6d ; Nether Bridge, £341 ; Bannisdale, 

 £232 ; Shap, £188 6s. ; Clifton, £120 5s., or a total of £1,140 2s. 6d. ; in 

 1842 the total was increased to £1,268 ; in 1872 the rents of the five gates 

 had fallen to £800. With the abolition of the Trust in 1882 the gates 

 became a relic of the past. In 1824 the tolls paid by the North Briton 

 coach for twelve months at the five gates totalled £418. 



In 1824 McAdam was appointed surveyor of roads from Kendal 

 to Penrith, and in July accepted the office of superintendent of the 

 Milnthorpe and Heron Syke turnpike ; macadam was first used on these 

 roads in 1826 — the farmers protested and petitioned the mayor of Kendal 

 that its use should be discontinued, they were afraid to take their horses 

 over it as they thought they would be " lamed beyond recovery " on the 

 small sharp stones. The cost of the upkeep of the tmnpike roads in 

 1834 was about £17 los. per mile. In Kendal and Kirkby Lonsdale 

 Wards there were 68 highway divisions, of which 55 gave returns to the 

 Kendal Farmers' Club in 1868 for a total of 450 miles, and the gross 

 cost of maintaining them in repair totalled £1,862, or £4 3s. per mile ; 

 the ratable value of the divisions being £158,265 and the annual average 

 rate 3d. in the £. The Government Returns for the 68 divisions in 1866 

 showed a cost of upkeep of £1,723. 



In 1871 the estimated annual cost of repairs on 16 miles 2 furlongs 

 of road in the townships of Nethergraveship, Strickland Ketel, Crook, 



