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A History of the County of Essex
… 1769, although none of the roads was turnpiked, the Essex turnpike trustees exercised some control over the …
A History of the County of Sussex
… development were removed by the building of a direct turnpike road from Horsham and London after 1802 3 and the …
A History of the County of Sussex
… with London was greatly improved after 1802 when a direct turnpike road was opened from West Grinstead by way of … avoiding the steep ascent of the downs at Steyning. 57 A turnpike gate was erected near the Teville pond at the north … had fallen more heavily than those of any other Sussex turnpike; the trustees' financial plight 67 made them unable …
A History of the County of Sussex
… road from Worthing to South Lancing was transferred to a turnpike trust 20 because the commissioners no longer had the … amounting to c. £19,000, of the Worthing and Lancing turnpike trust, and was given jurisdiction over part of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Roman road called WreckenDyke, which here crosses the old turnpike-road from Newcastle to Durham. Wreckington Hall is a …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Horsfield, Hist. Suss. ii. 114, wrongly calling it a turnpike; Lewis, Topog. Dict. Eng. (1849). Pike, Dir. SW. …
A History of the County of Somerset
… said to be light and dark blue marls at Woolston. 79 The turnpike road from Ansford to Sherborne passed through the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… (1853): copy in Westgate Libr., Oxford. Stokenchurch Turnpike Act, 5 Geo. I, c. 1 (Priv. Act). O.R.O., tithe map. …