The Metropolitan Turnpike Trust (officially the Commissioners of the Turnpike Roads in the Neighbourhood of the Metropolis North of the River Thames)...
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The road was authorised in 1829 and constructed in 1833 by the Metropolitan Turnpike Trust. Seven Sisters Road is part of the A503. The stretch running...
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milestones have survived. The metropolitan county of Greater Manchester was created in 1974 and so the turnpike trusts predate its existence. Greater...
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remodelling of St. James's Park by John Nash is completed. The Metropolitan Turnpike Trust is established. 1828 17 April: The Royal Free Hospital, established...
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The Massachusetts Turnpike (colloquially the "Mass Pike" or "the Pike") is a controlled-access toll highway in the US state of Massachusetts that is maintained...
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Although McAdam was paid £5,000 for his Bristol Turnpike Trust work and made "Surveyor-General of Metropolitan Roads" in 1820, professional jealousy cut a...
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The Keighley and Kendal Turnpike was a road built in 1753 by a turnpike trust between Keighley in the West Riding of Yorkshire and Kendal in Westmorland...
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Wilmslow Road (section Turnpike trust)
the turnpike trust was threatened with abolition but survived by offering to build Palatine Road from Withington to West Didsbury. All turnpike trusts in...
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Union Turnpike, north on Woodhaven Boulevard, and east on Metropolitan Avenue. The bus route's layover area is now on the north side of Union Turnpike. The...
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repaired by the Ludlow First Turnpike Trust of about 1751. The intervening section was handled by the Hundred House Turnpike Trust of 1753. The Hundred House...
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Greater Richmond Region (redirect from Richmond Metropolitan Statistical Area)
Richmond Region, also known as the Richmond metropolitan area or Central Virginia, is a region and metropolitan area in the U.S. state of Virginia, centered...
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Threshfield as belonging to Gamelbar. In 1752–53 the Keighley and Kendal Turnpike followed Hollins Bank Road with the toll bar situated at the bottom of...
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New Jersey Turnpike in January 1952 only amplified the continuing environmental degradation of the Meadowlands. Both spurs of the Turnpike travel through...
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Marble Arch (redirect from Tyburn turnpike)
firstly housed officers of the Royal Parks Constabulary and later the Metropolitan Police. One policeman stationed there during the early 1860s was Samuel...
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Greater Orlando (redirect from Orlando-Kissimmee, FL, Metropolitan Statistical Area)
The Orlando metropolitan area (officially, for U.S. census purposes, the Orlando–Kissimmee–Sanford, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area) is an inland...
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it to the southern leg. In the early 18th century, England's first turnpike trust was established to pave the route through Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire...
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Stalybridge. A turnpike trust was responsible for collecting tolls from traffic; the proceeds were used for road maintenance. The trust for Manchester...
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century after the construction of the Massachusetts Turnpike. It is part of the Worcester metropolitan area. Marlborough was declared a town in 1660, and...
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such as the Connecticut Turnpike (I‑95, I-395), the Richmond-Petersburg Turnpike in Virginia (also I‑95), and the Kentucky Turnpike (I‑65). As American suburbs...
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The Mills at Jersey Gardens (category Shopping malls in the New York metropolitan area)
were announced in 1998 by Glimcher Realty Trust, emphasizing the sites proximity to the New Jersey Turnpike and its location in an Urban Enterprise Zone...
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Interstate 75 in Michigan (redirect from Michigan Turnpike)
Scale not given. New York: Michigan Turnpike Authority. p. 2. OCLC 35260166. Retrieved October 30, 2012 – via HathiTrust. Richard, Tim (April 3, 1986). "I-275:...
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Rainhill (category Towns and villages in the Metropolitan Borough of St Helens)
Rainhill is a village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of St Helens, Merseyside, England. The population at the 2011 census was 10,853. Historically...
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Lancaster Turnpike, later part of the Lincoln Highway, in 1794, a canal in 1820, and the Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad in 1834. I-76 / Penna Turnpike US 30...
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Opened in 1926. Delaware River Turnpike Toll Bridge (I-95, PA Turnpike) - Connects the PA Turnpike to the NJ Turnpike. I-95 was only designated in 2018...
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Berks County, Pennsylvania (redirect from Reading metropolitan area)
Creek State Park Nolde Forest Environmental Education Center I-76 / Penna Turnpike I-176 I-78 / US 22 US 222 US 222 Bus. US 422 US 422 Bus. PA 10 PA 12 PA 23...
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Dave Pearson (painter) (category Academics of Manchester Metropolitan University)
October 2009. M.Mytton, Press Release – Manchester Metropolitan University 1997 Catalogue – Byzantium; Turnpike Gallery, Leigh, 1994 D.S.Pearson Catalogue of...
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Massachusetts Rail Trail Feasibility Study" was commissioned by the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority, which found construction of a 25 miles (40 km) trail to be feasible...
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Interstate 80 in Iowa (redirect from Iowa Turnpike)
construction of an Iowa Turnpike, to be the first modern four-lane highway in the state, along the US 6 corridor. Plans for the turnpike were shelved when the...
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is the Northeast Extension of the Pennsylvania Turnpike. The highway south of the Pennsylvania Turnpike is officially called the "Veterans Memorial Highway"...
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Salford was constructed by the Salford to Wigan Turnpike trust, by an Act of Parliament of 1753. Turnpike roads had a huge impact on the nature of business...
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