| Keppel Gate | |
|---|---|
 Keppel Gate sign on the A18 Snaefell Mountain Road with a south-east aspect looking towards Slieau Ree mountain and Keppel Gate. | |
| Coordinates | 54°12′50.9″N 4°28′47.1″W / 54.214139°N 4.479750°W |
| Built | 1864–1866, 1894-1896 1921-22, 1992, 2015 |
  Location of Keppel Gate in Isle of Man | |
Keppel Gate, Isle of Man[1] (locally /ˈkɛpəlˈɡəɪtˈ/) [2] is part of a former UK HM Commissioners of Woods and Forest estate, including a series of former highway mountain gates. It is now Common land in public ownership and is one of three purpose built former Crown Road sections of the A18 Snaefell Mountain Road used for the Isle of Man TT races. The area of Keppel Gate including a nearby private residence of Kate's Cottage at the adjacent 34th TT Milestone road-side marker[3][ambiguous] is located between the 4th Milestone and 5th Milestone road-side markers on the primary A18 Snaefell Mountain Road[4] in the parish district of Kirk Onchan in the Isle of Man.[5]
- ^ Sunday Express page 13 Sunday 12 June 2016
- ^ Place Names of The Isle of Man – Da Ny Manninee Dooie Volume Four Sheading of Garff (Kirk Maughold & Ramsey, Kirk Lonan and Kirk Connchan) page 402 Kirk Connchan by George Broderick (1999) Manx Place- Name Survey, Max Niemeyer Verlag Tübingen ISBN 3-484-40138-9 (Gesamtwerk) 3-484-10132-X Druck: Das Weihert-Druck GmbH Darmstadt, Eiband: Siegfried Geiger, Ammerbuch "Keppel Gate (Mtn gate)" ['kɛpɘl'] ("gate across the road here") OD1991….Kippal Gate CS 1851, the Keppel Gate CS 1871, Keppel Gate CS 1881, 1891, Keppel Gate (is now the entrance of the Ramsey mountain-road into the Crown Commons…") Gi/I 144: Applies to the site of a gate on the Mountain Road at 5732 in SC3882 ONB 1956 At Kate's Cottage."
- ^ International Isle of Man Tourist Trophy Races and Production Machine Races 3 June 5, 7 & 9, 1972 – Official Programme and Guide FIM The World Championship Road Races page 72 Auto-Cycle Union (1972) Fleet Studios London – Charles Frost Ltd
- ^ A Gazetteer of the Isle of Man page 243 & 258 Leslie Qulliam RBV The Manx Heritage Foundation - Eiraght Ashoonagh Vannin (2005) Quine and Cubbon Ltd ISBN 0 951 4539 12
- ^ Place Names of the Isle of Man by John J.Kneen MA (1970) Yn Cheshaght Ghailckagh The Scolar Press – Map Kirk Onchan page 238, pages 241–242 and pages 202–203 Sheading of Garff