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    Turnpike trusts were bodies set up by individual acts of Parliament, with powers to collect road tolls for maintaining the principal roads in Britain...
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  • to Worksop Turnpike Trust Bampton to Mexborough Turnpike Trust Barnby Moor to Rotherham Turnpike Trust Barnsdale and Leeds Turnpike Trust Barnsley and...
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  • This is a list of turnpike trusts that maintained roads in the West Midlands. Between 1663 and 1836, the Parliament of Great Britain and the Parliament...
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  • the United States, a toll road Turnpike may also refer to: A turnpike road, a principal road maintained by a turnpike trust that collected road tolls in...
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  • This is a list of turnpike trusts that maintained roads in the north east of England. Between 1663 and 1836, the Parliament of Great Britain and the Parliament...
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  • This is a list of turnpike trusts that maintained roads in the East Midlands. Between 1663 and 1836, the Parliament of Great Britain and the Parliament...
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  • This is a list of turnpike trusts that maintained roads in the East of England. Between 1663 and 1836, the Parliament of Great Britain and the Parliament...
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  • This is a list of turnpike trusts that maintained roads in North West England. Between 1663 and 1836, the Parliament of Great Britain and the Parliament...
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  • This is a list of turnpike trusts that maintained roads in South East England. Between 1663 and 1836, the Parliament of Great Britain and the Parliament...
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  • This is a list of turnpike trusts that maintained roads in South West England. Between 1663 and 1836, the Parliament of Great Britain and the Parliament...
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    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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    The Newton Bushell Turnpike Trust was a turnpike trust company in Devon which built and maintained trunk road connections from the West of Newton Bushell...
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  • The Metropolitan Turnpike Trust (officially the Commissioners of the Turnpike Roads in the Neighbourhood of the Metropolis North of the River Thames) was...
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    an Act of Parliament to consolidate and amend the laws relating to turnpike trusts in Wales was passed. In the late 1830s and early 1840s, the agricultural...
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  • Turnpike trusts were bodies set up by Acts of Parliament in the United Kingdom during the 18th and 19th centuries. The trusts had powers to collect road...
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    building of a road from Hatfield to Reading. The Reading and Hatfield Turnpike Trust was set up by a further act of Parliament, the Reading and Hatfield...
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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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  • under the control of individual turnpike trusts. The pace at which new turnpikes were created picked up in the 1750s as trusts were formed to maintain the...
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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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  • creating new turnpike trusts with the result that by the end of the 18th century almost all main roads were turnpike roads. Each trust required an Act...
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    turnpike trusts around the country. His second surviving son, James Nicoll McAdam, the "Colossus of Roads", was knighted for managing turnpike trusts:...
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    the A4251 road. It linked in with other turnpikes to the north forming a route to Birmingham. The turnpike trust was set up in 1762 by around 300 landed...
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    Griggs Quay to Penzance Turnpike and in 1839 an Act formed a third trust, the Hayle and Redruth Turnpike to complete the turnpike to Redruth. The running...
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  • management of roads in the United Kingdom, were common in the era of the turnpike trusts. Currently there is a single major road, the M6 Toll and a small number...
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  • Chester. The last turnpike road between Chester and Wrexham was constructed in 1756, when the Shrewsbury and Wrexham Turnpike Trust extended its road...
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    day-to-day running of the turnpike became the responsibility of the Richmond and Lancaster Turnpike Trust. Between 1758 and 1799, the trust charged a flat rate...
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    It was built around 1793 by the West Harptree Turnpike Trust and served as a toll house when turnpikes were in use. A pouch hung on a hook over the door...
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    Toll road (redirect from Turnpike Road)
    A toll road, also known as a turnpike or tollway, is a public or private road (almost always a freeway since the 1940s) for which a fee (or toll) is assessed...
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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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    led to the creation of the Essex and Hertfordshire Turnpike Trust (later Hockerill Turnpike Trust) in 1744 to repair the road between Harlow Bush Common...
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