Turnpike trusts in South East England

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This is a list of turnpike trusts that maintained roads in South East England.

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Between 1663 and 1836, the Parliament of Great Britain and the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed a series of acts of Parliament that created organisations - turnpike trusts – that collected road tolls, and used the money to repair the road. These applied to major roads, around a fifth of the road network. [1] The turnpike system was phased out in the 1870s, and major roads transitioned in the 1880s to the maintenance of the new county councils.

The counties used for these lists are the historic counties of England that existed at the time of the turnpike trusts. This article lists those in the south east of England: Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Hampshire, Kent, Middlesex, Oxfordshire, Surrey and Sussex.

Berkshire

TrustFoundedInitial act
CitationTitle
Abingdon and Fyfield Turnpike Trust1755 28 Geo. 2. c. 42
Abingdon, Wootton to Swinford Turnpike Trust1768 8 Geo. 3. c. 61
Besselsleigh Turnpike Trust1771 11 Geo. 3. c. 97
Chilton Pond and Abingdon Turnpike Trust1756 29 Geo. 2. c. 81
Fyfield, Newbridge and St John's Bridge Turnpike Trust1732 6 Geo. 2. c. 16
Harwell and Streatley Turnpike Trust1803 43 Geo. 3. c. xcii
Hinksey Road Turnpike Trust1756 29 Geo. 2. c. 81
Hurley Turnpike Trust1717 4 Geo. 1. c. 6
Leckford or Sousley Water Turnpike Trust1772 12 Geo. 3. c. 85
Maidenhead Turnpike Trust1717 4 Geo. 1. c. 6
Maidenhead to Cookham Turnpike Trust1779 19 Geo. 3. c. 84
New Windsor and Twyford Turnpike Trust1832 2 & 3 Will. 4. c. xvii
New Windsor to Datchet Turnpike Trust1801 41 Geo. 3. c. xxxvii
Reading and Basingstoke Turnpike Trust1717 4 Geo. 1. c. 7
Reading to Puntfield Turnpike Trust1713 13 Ann. c. 2
Shillingford and Reading Turnpike Trust1764 4 Geo. 3. c. 42
Speenhamland to Marlborough Turnpike Trust1725 12 Geo. 1. c. 8
Speenhamland to Reading Turnpike Trust1713 13 Ann. c. 28
Sunning-Lane End to Reading Turnpike Trust1735 9 Geo. 2. c. 21
Theale Road Turnpike Trust
Twyford Turnpike Trust
Twyford and Theale Turnpike Trust1826 7 Geo. 4. c. 73
Wallingford, Wantage and Faringdon Turnpike Trust1751 25 Geo. 2. c. 21

Buckinghamshire

TrustFoundedInitial act
CitationTitle
Aylesbury and Hockliffe Turnpike Trust
Aylesbury to West Wycomb Turnpike Trust
Beaconsfield and Stokenchurch Turnpike Trust
Bicester and Aylesbury Turnpike Trust
Bromham and Olney Turnpike Trust
Buckingham and Newport Pagnell Turnpike Trust
Buckingham and Towcester Turnpike Trust
Buckingham to Hanwell (Upper Division) Turnpike Trust
Colnbrook Turnpike Trust
Ellsborough to West Wycombe Turnpike Trust
Great Marlow and Stokenchurch Turnpike Trust
Holyhead Road (Hockliffe Division) Turnpike Trust
Princes Risborough and Thame Turnpike Trust
Red Hill and Beaconsfield Turnpike Trust
Wendover and Buckingham Turnpike Trust
Wendover to Oak Lane Turnpike Trust

Hampshire

TrustFoundedInitial act
CitationTitle
Aldermaston and Basingstoke Turnpike Trust
Andover and Basingstoke Turnpike Trust
Andover and Chilton Pond Turnpike Trust
Andover and Winchester, Andover District Turnpike Trust
Andover Station Turnpike Trust
Basingstoke, Hartfordbridge and Blackwater Turnpike Trust
Basingstoke, Odiham, Alton Turnpike Trust
Basingstoke, Preston Candover and Alton Turnpike Trust
Bishops Waltham and Fisher's Pond Turnpike Trust
Botley Turnpike Trust
Christchurch and Lyndhurst Turnpike Trust
Cranbourne Chase and New Forest Turnpike Trust
Farnham and Petersfield Turnpike Trust
Gosport and Bishops Waltham, Wickham and Chawton Turnpike Trust
Isle of Wight Highways Turnpike Trust
London and Southampton through Bishops Waltham Turnpike Trust
Lower St Cross, Mill Lane to Park Gate Turnpike Trust
Lymington, Lyndhurst and Rumbridge Turnpike Trust
Odiham and Alton Turnpike Trust
Odiham and Farnham Turnpike Trust
Petersfield to near Ropley Turnpike Trust
Popham Lane to Winchester Turnpike Trust
Portsmouth and Sheet Bridge Turnpike Trust
Ringwood, Longham and Leigh Turnpike Trust
Romsey and Ringwood Turnpike Trust
Romsey, Broughton, Stockbridge and Wallop Turnpike Trust
Southampton Turnpike Trust
Stockbridge and Basingstoke Turnpike Trust
Stockbridge and Winchester Turnpike Trust
Titchfield and Cosham Turnpike Trust
Whitchurch and Aldermaston Turnpike Trust
Whiteparish, Romsey and Southampton Turnpike Trust
Winchester and Alton, Lower District Turnpike Trust
Winchester and Gosport Turnpike Trust
Winchester and Romsey Turnpike Trust
Winchester and Waltham Turnpike Trust
Winchester to Newtown River Turnpike Trust
Winchester to Petersfield Turnpike Trust
Winchester, Upper District (Bagshot to Farnham) Turnpike Trust

Kent

TrustFoundedInitial act
CitationTitle
Ashford and Ham Street Turnpike Trust
Ashford and Maidstone Turnpike Trust
Ashford to Orlestone Turnpike Trust
Ashford to Tenderton Turnpike Trust
Benenden Turnpike Trust
Bethersden Turnpike Trust
Biddenden Turnpike Trust
Biddenden to Boundgate Turnpike Trust
Brandbridges Turnpike Trust
Bromley to Farnborough Turnpike Trust
Canterbury and Barnham Turnpike Trust
Canterbury and Ramsgate Turnpike Trust
Canterbury and Sandwich Turnpike Trust
Chatham and Canterbury Turnpike Trust
Cranbrooke to Sandhurst Turnpike Trust
Dartford and Sevenoaks Turnpike Trust
Dartford and Strood Turnpike Trust
Dover and Sandgate Turnpike Trust
Dover, Deal to Sandwich Turnpike Trust
Dover, Walfdershare to Sandwich Turnpike Trust
Dover to Barham Downs Turnpike Trust
East Malling to Pembury Green Turnpike Trust
Farnborough to Severnoaks Turnpike Trust
Faversham to Hythe and Canterbury Turnpike Trust
Folkestone and Barham Turnpike Trust
Goudhurst Turnpike Trust
Goudhurst, Gore and Stilebridge Turnpike Trust
Gravesend and Wrotham Turnpike Trust
Greenwich and Woolwich Lower Road Turnpike Trust
Herne Bay Turnpike Trust
Ightham Turnpike Trust
Kippings Cross and Flimwell Vent Turnpike Trust
Kippings Cross and Willsley Pond Turnpike Trust
Maidstone and Biddenden Turnpike Trust
Maidstone and Cranbrook Turnpike Trust
Maidstone and Key Street Turnpike Trust
Malling and Strood Turnpike Trust
New Cross Turnpike Trust
Penshurst, Wat's Cross and Cowden Turnpike Trust
Rochester and Maidstone Turnpike Trust
Rolvenden Turnpike Trust
Sandwich, Margate and Ramsgate Turnpike Trust
Sevenoaks Turnpike Trust
Shoreham to Chelsfield Turnpike Trust
Snodland to Strood Turnpike Trust
Stockerhead to Chilham Turnpike Trust
Stokershead to Bagham's Cross Turnpike Trust
Tenterden Turnpike Trust
Tenterden to Warehorne Turnpike Trust
Tonbridge Turnpike Trust
Tonbridge and Ightham Turnpike Trust
Tonbridge and Maidstone Turnpike Trust
Tunbridge Wells to Uckfield Turnpike Trust
Wadhurst and West Farleigh Turnpike Trust
West Peckham to Hadlow Turnpike Trust
Westerham and Edenbridge Turnpike Trust
Westerham to Titsey Turnpike Trust
Whistable Turnpike Trust
Wooodchurch Turnpike Trust
Wrotham and Maidstone Turnpike Trust
Wrotham Heath Turnpike Trust
Wrotham Heath to Oxted Turnpike Trust

Middlesex

TrustFoundedInitial act
CitationTitle
Bethnal Green to Church Street Turnpike Trust
Brompton to Fulham Road Turnpike Trust1825 6 Geo. 4. c. clxAn Act for making and maintaining a Turnpike Road from Brompton and Earles Court, in the Parish of Saint Mary Abbott's, Kensington, in the County of Middlesex, to communicate with the Road called Fulham Fields Road at North End, in the same County; and for making another Turnpike Road to communicate therewith from the High Road from London to Fulham, in the said County.
Camden Town to Holloway Turnpike Trust1824 5 Geo. 4. c. cxxxviii
Cannon Street Turnpike Trust1754 27 Geo. 2. c. 40An Act for opening, making, widening, and keeping in Repair, a Road from Ratcliff Highway, through Cannon Street, in the County of Middlesex, into the Road leading into the County of Essex; and also from the West End of Brook Street into Cable Street, and from Upper Shadwell Street into the Back Lane in the said County of Middlesex.
Commercial Road Turnpike Trust1802 42 Geo. 3. c. ci
Earls Court to Hammersmith Bridge Turnpike Trust1828 9 Geo. 4. c. ciii
East India Docks Road Turnpike Trust1802 42 Geo. 3. c. ci
Highbury to Shoreditch Turnpike Trust
Islington Old Street Turnpike Trust
Jeremy's Ferry to Snaresbrook Turnpike Trust1757 30 Geo. 2. c. 59An Act for building a Bridge over the River Lea, at or near a Place called Jeremy's Ferry; and for making, repairing, and widening, Roads from thence into the great Roads at Snaresbrooke in the County of Essex, and at Clapton in the County of Middlesex.
Kensington to Cranford Bridge Turnpike Trust1716 Kensington, Staines and Cranford Bridge Roads Act 1716 (3 Geo. 1. c. 14Pr.)An Act for repairing the Highways, from that Part of Counter's Bridge which lies in the Parish of Kensington, in the County of Middlesex, to The Powder Mills in the Road to Staines, and Cranford Bridge, in the said County, in the Road to Colnebrook.
Kentish Town Junction Turnpike Trust1811 51 Geo. 3. c. clvi
Marylebone to Finchley Road Turnpike Trust1826 7 Geo. 4. c. xc
Metropolis North of Thames Turnpike Trust 1826 7 Geo. 4. c. cxlii
New North Road Turnpike Trust 1812 52 Geo. 3. c. cliv
Paddington to Harrow Turnpike Trust1801 41 Geo. 3. (U.K.). c. cxxix
Pinner and Rickmansworth Turnpike Trust1809 49 Geo. 3. c. li
Shoreditch to Goswell Street Turnpike Trust
Staines and Bedfont Turnpike Trust1727 Egham and Bagshot Roads Act 1727 (1 Geo. 2. St. 2. c. 6)An Act for repairing the Road from the Powder Mills on Hounslow Heath, in the County of Middlesex, to a Place called Basingstone, near the Town of Bagshot, in the Parish of Windlesham, in the County of Surrey.
Staines and Hampton Turnpike Trust1773 Hampton to Staines Road Act 1773 (13 Geo. 3. c. 105)An Act for, amending, widening, and keeping in Repair, the Road from the Guide Post at the West End of the Town of Hampton, over Sunbury Common, to the Town of Staines, in the County of Middlesex.
Tower Hill to Smithfield Turnpike Trust1812 52 Geo. 3. c. cxlix
Wheatstone Turnpike Trust1711 Middlesex and Hertfordshire Roads (No. 2) Act 1711 (10 Ann. c. 4)An Act for repairing the Highway, between Highgate Gatehouse, in the County of Middlesex, and Barnet Blockhouse, in the County of Hertford.

Oxfordshire

TrustFoundedInitial act
CitationTitle
Asthal and Buckland Turnpike Trust
Aylesbury, Thame and Shillingford Turnpike Trust
Banbury to Barcheston Turnpike Trust
Barrington to Campsfield Turnpike Trust
Bicester, Aynho and Finmere Turnpike Trust
Botley, Fyfield, and Newlands Turnpike Trust
Burford and Lechlade Turnpike Trust
Burford, Chipping Norton and Banbury Turnpike Trust
Charlbury Roads Turnpike Trust
Drayton Lane and Edgehill Turnpike Trust
Enstone, Heyford and Bicester Turnpike Trust
Faringdon to Burford Turnpike Trust
Galley Hill and Clanfield Turnpike Trust
Gosford Gate Turnpike Trust
Henley and Dorchester Turnpike Trust
Islip District Turnpike Trust
Kidlington and Deddington Turnpike Trust
Oxford Mileways
St Clements Turnpike Trust
Stokenchurch, Wheatley, Begbroke Turnpike Trust
Stony Stratford to Woodstock Turnpike Trust
Thame and Bicester Turnpike Trust
Thame to Postcombe Turnpike Trust
Woodstock to Rollright Lane Turnpike Trust

Surrey

TrustFoundedInitial act
CitationTitle
Alford and Guildford Turnpike Trust
Bagshot to Hertfordbridge Turnpike Trust
Bermondsey, Rotherhithe and Deptford Turnpike Trust
Blackfriars to Newington Butts Turnpike Trust
Bramley and Ridgewick Turnpike Trust
Croydon and Reigate Turnpike Trust
Egham and Bagshot Turnpike Trust
Epsom, Ewell, Tooting etc Turnpike Trust
Gatton Lodge to Povey Cross Turnpike Trust
Godalming and Painshill Turnpike Trust
Godstone and Highgate Turnpike Trust1718
Guildford and Farnham Turnpike Trust
Haslemere Turnpike Trust
Kent Road to Deptford Turnpike Trust
Kingston and Leatherhead Turnpike Trust
Kingston and Sheetbridge Turnpike Trust
Leatherhead and Stoke next Guildford Turnpike Trust
Limpsfield Turnpike Trust
Ockley and Warnham Turnpike Trust
Reigate Turnpike Trust
Southwark to Kent Street Turnpike Trust
Surrey and Sussex Turnpike Trust
Surrey New Roads Turnpike Trust

Sussex

TrustFoundedInitial act
CitationTitle
Alford Bars and Newbridge Turnpike Trust
Arundel to Petworth Turnpike Trust
Beech Down to Heathfield etc Turnpike Trust
Beeding to Old Shoreham Turnpike Trust
Billingshurst to Broadbridge Heath Turnpike Trust
Brede Turnpike Trust
Brighton and Newhaven Turnpike Trust
Brighton, Cuckfield and West Grimsted Turnpike Trust
Brighton, Shoreham and Lancing Turnpike Trust
Broil Park-Gate to Battle Turnpike Trust
Burwash to Ticehurst Turnpike Trust
Bury Turnpike Trust
Chichester, Dell Quay and Fernhurst Turnpike Trust
Cosham to Chichester Turnpike Trust
Cowfold to Henfield Turnpike Trust
Crouch Hill and Hurstpeirpoint Turnpike Trust
Ditcheling and Clayton Branch Turnpike Trust
Etchingham to Burwash Turnpike Trust
Ewhurst to Norian Turnpike Trust
Five Oaks Turnpike Trust
Flimwell to Hastings Turnpike Trust
Henfield Turnpike Trust
Henfield to Brighthelmston Turnpike Trust
Hodges and Cuckfield Turnpike Trust
Hollington and Hastings Turnpike Trust
Horley and Cuckfield Turnpike Trust
Horley Common to Uckfield Turnpike Trust
Horsebridge and Horsham Turnpike Trust
Horsham and Crawley Turnpike Trust
Horsham and Dorking Turnpike Trust
Horsham and Guildford Turnpike Trust
Horsham and Steyning Turnpike Trust
Hurstpierpoint and Cuckfield Turnpike Trust
Hurstpierpoint and Pontings Branch Turnpike Trust
Lewes and Brighthelmston Turnpike Trust
Lewes, Eastbourne and Hailsham Turnpike Trust
Malling Street to Wych Cross Turnpike Trust
Mayfield and Wadhurst Turnpike Trust
Midhurst and Sheetbridge Turnpike Trust
Milford to Portsmouth Road Turnpike Trust
New Chappel, Linfield and Brighton Turnpike Trust
Offham and Ditcheling Turnpike Trust
Offham to Witch Cross Turnpike Trust
Petworth Turnpike Trust
Pulborough to Horsham Turnpike Trust
Pyecombe and Hickstead Turnpike Trust
Ringmer and Hurst Green Turnpike Trust
Robertsbridge Clappers Turnpike Trust
Rowhook Branch Turnpike Trust
Rye Turnpike Trust
Shipley Turnpike Trust
Sloughham to West Grinstead Turnpike Trust
South Malling to Alfiston Turnpike Trust
St Leonards and Sedlescomb Turnpike Trust
Staplecross Turnpike Trust
Stoke, Guildford, Arundell Turnpike Trust
Stonegate Turnpike Trust
Storrington and Ball's Hut Turnpike Trust
Storrington and Wiston Turnpike Trust
Tunbridge Wells and Mayfield Turnpike Trust
Uckfield and Tunbridge Wells Turnpike Trust
Worthing Turnpike Trust
Worthing and Lancing Turnpike Trust

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This is a list of turnpike trusts that maintained roads in the East of England.

This is a list of turnpike trusts that maintained roads in the East Midlands.

This is a list of turnpike trusts that maintained roads in the north east of England.

This is a list of turnpike trusts that maintained roads in North West England.

This is a list of turnpike trusts that maintained roads in the West Midlands.

This is a list of turnpike trusts that maintained roads in South West England.

References

  1. "Turnpikes and tolls". UK Parliament.