Turnpike trusts in Yorkshire

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This is a list of turnpike trusts that maintained roads in Yorkshire.

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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 Yorkshire, split into the three ridings, North, West and East .

East Riding

TrustFoundedInitial act
CitationTitle
  • Beverley to Kendal House Turnpike Trust
  • Beverley to Kexby Bridge Turnpike Trust
1764 4 Geo. 3. c. 76 Beverley and Kexby Bridge Road Act 1764
An Act for repairing and widening the Road from Beverley to Kexby Bridge, in the County of York.
  • Beverley, Hessle and North Cave Turnpike Trust
1769 9 Geo. 3. c. 79 Beverley to Hessle Ferry Turnpike Act 1769
An Act for repairing and widening the Road from Beverley to the Ferry at Hessle, and from the Malton Guide Post to the Gravel Pit at Cottingham, in the County of York.
  • Brough Turnpike Trust
  • Brough Ferry Turnpike Trust
  • Elloughton to Coney Clappers Turnpike Trust
1771 11 Geo. 3. c. 71 Yorkshire Roads (No. 3) Act 1771
An Act for repairing and widening the Road from the Low Water Mark of the River Humber, at or near Brough Ferry, in the Parish of Elloughton, in the East Riding of the County of York to the North End of the Town of Brough, and from thence, through South Cave, to Coney Clappers, in South Newbald Holmes, in the said Riding.
  • Hull and Beverley Turnpike Trust
1743 17 Geo. 2. c. 25 Yorkshire Roads (No. 2) Act 1743
An Act for repairing the Road between the Town of Kingston upon Hull, and the Town of Beverley, in the East Riding of the County of York.
  • Hull and Hedon Turnpike Trust
1744 18 Geo. 2. c. 6 Yorkshire Roads Act 1744
An Act for repairing the Road leading from a Gate, commonly called Sacred Gate, on the South East Side of the Town of Hedon, in the East Riding of the County of York, through the said Town, to Hull North Bridge.
  • Hull and Hessle and Ferriby Turnpike Trust
1825 6 Geo. 4. c. clii Road from Kingston-upon-Hull to Ferriby Act 1825
  • Hull and Kirk Ella Turnpike Trust
1744 18 Geo. 2. c. 4 Kingston-upon-Hull Roads Act 1744
An Act for repairing the Road leading from the Town of Kingston upon Hull to and through the Town of Anlaby, and from thence to the Town of Kirk-Ella, in the County of the said Town of Kingston upon Hull.
  • Molescroft Turnpike Trust
  • Beverley, Molesworth and Kendale House Turnpike Trust
1766 6 Geo. 3. c. 59 Yorks Roads Act 1766
An Act for repairing and widening the Road from Beverley by Molscroft to Kendell-house, and from Molscroft to Bainion Balk, in the County of York.
  • Ottringham to Sunk Island Turnpike Trust
1836 6 & 7 Will. 4. c. 91 Road from Sunk Island to Ottringham Act 1836
An Act to enable the Commissioners of His Majesty's Woods, Forests, Land Revenues, Works, and Buildings to make and maintain a Road from the Church in the Parish of Sunk Island to the Town of Ottringham in the East Riding of the County of York.
  • Patrington Turnpike Trust
  • Hedon and Patrington Haven Turnpike Trust
1760 1 Geo. 3. c. 35 Yorkshire Roads Act 1760
An Act for amending the Road from Sacred Gate in the Parish of Thorngumbald to Pattrington Creek or Haven; and from the Guide Post in Winestead to Frodingham Gate in or near Widow Branton's Farm, in the County of York; and for scouring and cleansing the said Creek or Haven.
  • White-Cross Turnpike Trust
  • Leven to Beverley Turnpike Trust
1760 1 Geo. 3. c. 42 White Cross and Beverley Roads Act 1760
An Act for repairing and amending the Road leading from Whitecross in the Parish of Leven in Holderness, in the East Riding of the County of York, to the Town of Beverley in the said County.
Wyton and Flinton Turnpike Trust1767 7 Geo. 3. c. 71 Yorks Roads Act 1766
An Act to enlarge the Term and Powers of an Act passed in the Eighteenth Year of King George the Second, for repairing the Road from Sacred Gate, on the South East Side of the Town of Hedon, in the East Riding of the County of York, through the said Town, to Hull North Bridge; and for amending the Road from the present Turnpike Bar in Wyton Holmes, through the Townships of Wyton and Sproatley, to the Guide Post in Flinton Lane near Humbleton Moor House, in the same Riding.
  • York to Kexby Bridge, Grimston & Stonedale End Turnpike Trust
1765 5 Geo. 3. c. 99 York Roads Act 1765
An Act for amending and widening the Road from the City of York, by Grimston Smithy, to Kexby Bridge, and from Grimston Smithy aforesaid to a certain Gate at the Upper End of Garraby Hill, in the County of York.

North Riding

TrustFoundedInitial act
CitationTitle
Boroughbridge and Durham Turnpike Trust1744 18 Geo. 2. c. 8 Boroughbridge and Durham Road Act 1744
An Act for repairing the High Road leading from Boroughbridge, in the County of York, through North-Allerton, in the same County, to Croft Bridge, on the River Tees, and from thence through Darlington, in the County of Durham, to the City of Durham.
Boroughbridge to Catterick Turnpike Trust
Gatherby Moor to Staindrop Turnpike Trust
Malton and Pickering Turnpike Trust
  • Middleton-tyas Lane to Greta Bridge and Bowes Turnpike Trust
Red House and Crofton Turnpike Trust
Reeth and Tan Hill Turnpike Trust
Richmond and Lancaster Turnpike Trust
Richmond to Lucy Cross Turnpike Trust
Richmond to Reeth Turnpike Trust
Thirsk Turnpike Trust
Thirsk and Masham Turnpike Trust
Thirsk and Yarm Turnpike Trust
Whitby and Middleton Turnpike Trust
Winston Bridge Turnpike Trust
York to Oswaldkirk Bank Top Turnpike Trust
York to Scarborough Turnpike Trust

West Riding

TrustFoundedInitial act
CitationTitle
  • Almondbury to Austonley Turnpike Trust
  • Meltham and Wessenden Head Turnpike Trust
1825 6 Geo. 4. c. ciii Meltham and Austonley Turnpike Road Act 1825
  • Balby to Worksop Turnpike Trust

  • Bampton to Mexborough Turnpike Trust

  • Barnby Moor to Rotherham Turnpike Trust

  • Barnsdale and Leeds Turnpike Trust

  • Barnsley and Grange Moor Turnpike Trust

  • Barnsley and Pontefract Turnpike Trust

  • Barnsley and Shepley Lane Head Turnpike Trust

  • Barnsley to Cudworth Bridge Turnpike Trust

  • Bawtry and Selby Turnpike Trust

  • Bawtry and Tinsley Turnpike Trust

  • Birstall and Huddersfield Turnpike Trust

  • Bradford and Eccleshill Turnpike Trust

  • Bradford and Huddersfield Turnpike Trust

  • Bradford and Thornton Turnpike Trust

  • Bradford and Wakefield Turnpike Trust

  • Bradford to Colne Turnpike Trust

  • Bradford to Heckmondwyke Turnpike Trust

  • Brighouse Turnpike Trust

  • Brighouse and Denholme Gate Turnpike Trust

  • Chadderton to Huddersfield Turnpike Trust

  • Collingham and York Turnpike Trust

  • Colne to Broughton Turnpike Trust

  • Dewsbury and Elland Turnpike Trust

  • Dewsbury and Leeds Turnpike Trust

  • Doncaster and Bawtry Turnpike Trust

  • Doncaster and Salter's Brook Turnpike Trust

  • Doncaster and Selby Turnpike Trust

  • Doncaster and Tadcaster Turnpike Trust

  • Doncaster and Thorne Turnpike Trust

  • Doncaster to Boroughbridge Turnpike Trust

  • Doncaster to Wakefield Turnpike Trust

  • Dudley Hill, Killinghall and Harrogate Turnpike Trust

  • Ecclesall to Dore Turnpike Trust

  • Elland and Saddleworth Turnpike Trust

  • Ferrybridge and Boroughbridge Turnpike Trust

  • Godley Lane Turnpike Trust

  • Gomersal and Dewsbury Turnpike Trust

  • Greenfield and Shepley Lane Head Turnpike Trust

  • Halifax and Huddersfield Turnpike Trust

  • Halifax and Sheffield Turnpike Trust

  • Halifax to Dewsbury Turnpike Trust


  • Harrogate and Boroughbridge Turnpike Trust

  • Harrogate and Hewick Turnpike Trust

  • Haworth and Two Laws Turnpike Trust

  • Holme Lane End and Heckmondwyke Turnpike Trust

  • Huddersfield and New Hey Turnpike Trust

  • Huddersfield and Penistone Turnpike Trust

  • Huddersfield and Woodhead Turnpike Trust

  • Hunslet and Leeds Turnpike Trust

  • Keighley and Bradford Turnpike Trust

  • Keighley and Halifax Turnpike Trust

1753 26 Geo. 2. c. 86 Yorkshire and Westmorland Roads Act 1753
An Act for repairing, amending, and widening, the Road from Keighley in the West Riding of the County of York, to Kirkby in Kendal in the County of Westmorland.
  • Kirkgate to Westgate in Wakefield Turnpike Trust

  • Kirkstall, Ilkley and Shipley Turnpike Trust

  • Knaresborough and Pateley Bridge Turnpike Trust

  • Knaresborough to Green Hammerton Turnpike Trust

  • Leeds and Birstall Turnpike Trust

  • Leeds and Collingham Turnpike Trust

  • Leeds and Elland Turnpike Trust

  • Leeds and Halifax Turnpike Trust

  • Leeds and Harrogate Turnpike Trust

  • Leeds and Hebdon Bridge Turnpike Trust

  • Leeds and Holmfield Lane End Turnpike Trust

  • Leeds and Otley Turnpike Trust

  • Leeds and Roundhay Turnpike Trust

  • Leeds and Selby Turnpike Trust

  • Leeds and Tong Lane End Turnpike Trust

  • Leeds and Wakefield Turnpike Trust
1757 31 Geo. 2. c. 63 Leeds and Wakefield Road Act 1757
An Act for repairing the Road from Leeds to Sheffield, in the County of York.
  • Leeds and Whitehall Turnpike Trust
1825 6 Geo. 4. c. xcvii Road from Leeds to Whitehall (Yorkshire) Act 1825
  • Leeds to Sheffield Turnpike Trust
1757 31 Geo. 2. c. 63 Leeds and Wakefield Road Act 1757
An Act for repairing the Road from Leeds to Sheffield, in the County of York.
  • Leeds, Woodhouse Carr and Meanwoodside Turnpike Trust

  • Liversedge to Cleckheaton Turnpike Trust

  • Lockwood and Meltham Turnpike Trust

  • Long Preston to Sawley Turnpike Trust

  • Maltby to Barnby Moor Turnpike Trust

  • Meltham and Wessenden Head Turnpike Trust

  • Mytholmroyd and Blackstone-edge Turnpike Trust

  • Penistone to Grindleford (Mortimer Road) Turnpike Trust

  • Ripon and Pateley Bridge Turnpike Trust

1734 8 Geo. 2. c. 7 Rochdale, Halifax and Ealand Road Act 1734
An Act for repairing and widening the Road from the Town of Rochdale, in the County Palatine of Lancaster, leading over a certain craggy Mountain, called Blackstone Edge, in the same County; and from thence to the Towns of Hallifax and Ealand, in the County of York.
  • Rotherham and Four Lane Ends Turnpike Trust

  • Rotherham and Pleasley Turnpike Trust

  • Rotherham and Swinton Turnpike Trust

  • Rotherham and Wentworth Turnpike Trust

  • Roundhay to Collingham Turnpike Trust

  • Saddleworth to Thornsett Turnpike Trust

  • Salterhebble, Stainland and Sowerby Bridge Turnpike Trust

  • Sedbergh Turnpike Trust
1762 2 Geo. 3. c. 83 Lancaster and Westmorland Roads Act 1762
An Act for repairing and widening the Roads from Kirby-Steven High-Lane Head in the County of Westmorland, through Sedbergh, to Greeta Bridge in the County Palatine of Lancaster, and from Bracken Bar Gate near Askrigg in the County of York, through Sedbergh, to Kirby Kendal; and also the Road from The Four Lane Ends in Marthwaite, to the Turnpike Road on Grayrigg House, leading from Appleby to Kirkby Kendal in the said County of Westmorland.
  • Selby and Market Weighton Turnpike Trust

  • Sheepscar to Leeds Turnpike Trust


  • Shipley and Bramley Turnpike Trust

  • Shipley to Caisthorne Turnpike Trust

  • Skipton and Clitheroe Turnpike Trust

  • Skipton and Knaresborough Turnpike Trust

  • Skipton and Otley Turnpike Trust

  • Standedge and Oldham Turnpike Trust

  • Swinton, Rawmarsh and Hooton Roberts Turnpike Trust

  • Tadcaster Bridge to Hob-moor Lane End Turnpike Trust

  • Tadcaster and Halton Dial Turnpike Trust

  • Tadcaster and Otley Turnpike Trust

  • Tinsley and Doncaster Turnpike Trust

  • Todmorden Turnpike Trust
1759 33 Geo. 2. c. 48 Yorks and Lancaster Roads Act 1759
An Act for diverting, altering, widening, repairing, and amending, the Roads from the Town of Halifax, and from Sowerby Bridge, in the County of York, by Todmorden, to Burnley and Littleborough, in the County of Lancaster.
  • Wadsley and Langsett Turnpike Trust
  • Wadsley, Langsett and Sheffield Turnpike Trust
1805 45 Geo. 3. c. cvii Wadsley and Langset Road Act 1805
An Act for making and keeping in Repair, a Carriage Road, to branch out of the Sheffield and Peniston Turnpike Road in the Township of Wadsley, in the West Riding of the County of York, to join the Doncaster and Salter's Brook Turnpike Road in the Township of Langset, in the said West Riding.
  • Wakefield and Aberford Turnpike Trust
1789 29 Geo. 3. c. 86 Wakefield to Abberford Road Act 1789
An Act for repairing and widening the Road from the Town of Wakefield, to the Town of Abberford, in the West Riding of the County of York.
  • Wakefield and Austerlands Turnpike Trust
1758 32 Geo. 2. c. 48 Wakefield to Austerlands Road Act 1758
An Act for repairing the Road from Wakefield to Austerlands, in The West Riding of the County of York.
  • Wakefield and Denby Dale Turnpike Trust
1825 6 Geo. 4. c. xxxviii Wakefield and Denby Dale Turnpike Road Act 1825
An Act for making and maintaining a Turnpike Road from Wakefield, to join the Shepley Lane Head Turnpike Road in Denby Dale, in the Parish of Penistone, with certain Branches, all in the West Riding of the County of York.
  • Wakefield and Halifax Turnpike Trust
1740 14 Geo. 2. c. 19 Wakefield, etc., Roads Act 1740
An Act for repairing the Roads from a Place called Redhouse, near Doncaster, to Wakefield, and through the said Town of Wakefield, by Dewsbury, Hightoun and Lightcliff, to the Town of Halifax, in the West Riding of the County of York.
  • Wakefield and Sheffield Turnpike Trust
1757 31 Geo. 2. c. 63 Leeds and Wakefield Road Act 1757
An Act for repairing the Road from Leeds to Sheffield, in the County of York.
  • Wakefield and Weeland Turnpike Trust
1740 14 Geo. 2. c. 23 Yorkshire Roads Act 1740
An Act for repairing the Road from Wakefield to Pontefract, and from thence to a Place called Weeland, in the Township of Hensall, and from Pontefract to Wentbridge, in the Township of Darrington, in the West Riding of the County of York.
  • Wakefield to Pontefract Turnpike Trust

  • Wellington to Tong Lane End Turnpike Trust
1825 6 Geo. 4. c. iii Road from Wellington Bridge Road to Tong Lane End (Yorkshire) Act 1825
An Act for making and maintaining a Turnpike Road from the Turnpike Road called Wellington Bridge Road, near the Town of Leeds, in the West Riding of the County of York, to the Turnpike Road leading from Wakefield to Bradford, in the said Riding, near a certain Place called Tong Lane End, in the Lordship or Liberty of Tong, in the Parish of Birstal, in the Riding aforesaid, with several Branch Roads therefrom.
  • Wetherby and Knaresborough Turnpike Trust
1758 32 Geo. 2. c. 71 Wetherby to Grassington Road Act 1758
An Act for repairing and widening the High Road from Wetherby to Grassington, in the County of York.
  • Wibsey, Low Moor and Huddersfield Turnpike Trust
  • Bradford and Huddersfield Turnpike Trust
1823 4 Geo. 4. c. liv Bradford and Huddersfield Road and Branches Act 1823
  • Worksop and Attercliffe Turnpike Trust
1764 4 Geo. 3. c. 52 Worksop and Attercliffe Road Act 1764
An Act for repairing and widening the Road from Worksop in the County of Nottingham, through the Towns of Galeforth, Anston, Aston, Handsworth, and Darnall, to the North East End of Attercliffe in the County of York, where the same joins the Turnpike Road from Bawtry to Sheffield.
  • York and Boroughbridge Turnpike Trust
1749 23 Geo. 2. c. 38 York and Boroughbridge Road Act 1749
An Act for repairing the Road from the City of York, over Skipbridge, to Boroughbridge, in the County of York.

References

  1. ↑ "Turnpikes and tolls". UK Parliament.
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