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A History of the County of Stafford
… to the gas-works in Swan Village—was taken over from the turnpike trustees by the improvement commissioners. 57 The … road leading from Mares Green towards the Three Mile Oak Turnpike'. In the earlier 1770s, however, traffic was … to Sutton Coldfield, but there is no further record of the turnpike. 67 It was widened as far as Wigmore Lane in 1920-1 …
A History of the County of Stafford
… L.J.R.O., B/A/15/West Bromwich. B.R.L. 608107, Plan of Turnpike Road from Birmingham to Wednesbury, Dudley and …
A History of the County of Sussex
… of the parish, benefiting from their improvement under turnpike trusts after 1764. 80 The chief areas of settlement … in 1875, was mentioned in 1511. 53 The HorshamSteyning turnpike road was opened through the parish under an Act of … to Ashurst by way of Partridge green and Bines Bridge. The turnpike was financed largely from the subscriptions of …
A History of the County of Sussex
… including a 'lawn' of 17 a. stretching north to the turnpike road; 72 they survived in the early 20th century, 73 …
A History of the County of Sussex
… c. 200 a., 14 and by c. 1800 it extended to the Steyning turnpike road on the south and to Park Lane on the east; 15 …
A History of the County of Essex
… He was opposed by the owners of horse-drawn coaches and turnpike authorities, and could not secure adequate financial …
A History of the County of Essex
… the 17th century this had sometimes been literally true. A turnpike gate, at the Stratford end of Bow Bridge, was seized … another time of national unrest, quarter sessions set up a turnpike in Stratford High Street, and another at the Abbey … to have ceased soon after. The later history of the other turnpike set up in 1681 is not known, but that also may have …
A History of the County of Essex
… built about 1662. It was rebuilt in 17503, when the turnpike road was widened, and again in 1781. The Church … from the works of the Whitechapel Gas Co., to light the turnpike road. In the 1850s, after several changes of …
A History of the County of Essex
… the approaches to them. 30 When the Middlesex and Essex turnpike trust took over the main road through Stratford the … in 1834, when an Act provided that the Middlesex and Essex turnpike trust should manage all the five bridges, as well as … bridges would continue to be met by their owners, but the turnpike trust was empowered to widen or improve any bridge, …
A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 10
… and two waywardens, and to nominate constables. 20 A turnpike keeper was constable in 1861. 21 The vestry …