Turnpike trusts in the East of England

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This is a list of turnpike trusts that maintained roads in the East of 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 east of England: Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Huntingdonshire, Norfolk and Suffolk.

Bedfordshire

TrustFoundedInitial act
CitationTitle
Barford Turnpike Trust
(Cardington to Temsford Bridge Turnpike Trust)
1772 12 Geo. 3. c. 107
Bedford and Kimbolton Turnpike Trust1795 35 Geo. 3. c. 148
Bedford and Luton Turnpike Trust1726 13 Geo. 1. c. 17
Bedford and Newport Pagnell Turnpike Trust
(Bedford to Sherrington Turnpike Trust)
1754 27 Geo. 2. c. 34
Bedford and Woburn Turnpike Trust1777 17 Geo. 3. c. 94
Biggleswade to Alconbury Hill Turnpike Trust1724 11 Geo. 1. c. 20
Great Staughton to Lavendon Turnpike Trust1802 42 Geo. 3. c. lxiv
Hitchin and Bedford Turnpike Trust1757 30 Geo. 2. c. 43
Hockliffe and Woburn Turnpike Trust1706 6 Ann. c. 13
Luton District Turnpike Trust1726 13 Geo. 1. c. 17
Potton Road Turnpike Trust1814 54 Geo. 3. c. clxxx
Puddlehill Turnpike Trust1710 9 Ann. c. 34

Cambridgeshire

TrustFoundedInitial act
CitationTitle
Arrington Turnpike Trust
Cambridge to Ely and Soham (South District) Turnpike Trust
Hauxton and Dunsbridge Turnpike Trust
Littleport to Welney (North west district) Turnpike Trust
Newmarket Heath Turnpike Trust
Paper Mills Turnpike Trust
Red Cross Turnpike Trust
Royston to Wandesford Bridge (South District) Turnpike Trust
St Neots to Cambridge Turnpike Trust
Stump Cross Turnpike Trust
Wisbech Turnpike Trust
Wisbech and Thorney Turnpike Trust
Wrestlingworth and Potton Turnpike Trust

Essex

TrustFoundedInitial act
CitationTitle
Barking and Tibury Fort Road Turnpike Trust
Chelmsford Turnpike Trust
Coggeshall and Bocking Turnpike Trust
Colchester Turnpike Trust
Dunmow Turnpike Trust
Epping and Ongar Turnpike Trust
Essex Second District Turnpike Trust
Halsted Turnpike Trust
Hockerill Turnpike Trust
Middlesex and Essex Turnpike Trust
Notley Turnpike Trust
Rochford Hundred Turnpike Trust
Shenfield to Harwich Turnpike Trust
Thundersley to Hornden Turnpike Trust

Hertfordshire

TrustFoundedInitial act
CitationTitle
Baldock and Bournbridge Turnpike Trust
Cheshunt Turnpike Trust
Dunstable Turnpike Trust
Enfield Chase or Galley Corner Turnpike Trust
Galley Corner to Lemsford Turnpike Trust
Hockerill Turnpike Trust
Pondyards (St. Albans) and Barnet Turnpike Trust
Reading and Hatfield Turnpike Trust
Sparrows Herne Turnpike Trust
Stevenage and Biggleswade Turnpike Trust
Wadesmill Turnpike Trust
Watton Turnpike Trust
Welwyn Turnpike Trust

Huntingdonshire

TrustFoundedInitial act
CitationTitle
Bury and Stratton Turnpike Trust
Godmanchester and Hartford Turnpike Trust
Godmanchester to Cambridge Turnpike Trust
Kimbolton Turnpike Trust
Oundle to Alconbury Turnpike Trust
Ramsey to Huntingdon Turnpike Trust
Somersham Turnpike Trust
Stilton Turnpike Trust

Norfolk

TrustFoundedInitial act
CitationTitle
Aylsham and Cromer Turnpike Trust
Downham and Fincham Turnpike Trust
Ely to Downham Turnpike Trust
Great Yarmouth to Acle and Branches Turnpike Trust
King's Lynn to Hillington Turnpike Trust
Lynn – East Gate (Dersingham and Hillington) Turnpike Trust
Lynn – South Gate Turnpike Trust
Lynn and Wisbech Turnpike Trust
New Buckenham Turnpike Trust
North Walsham Turnpike Trust
Norwich and Fakenham Turnpike Trust
Norwich and Scole Turnpike Trust
Norwich and Swaffham Turnpike Trust
Norwich and Watton Turnpike Trust
Norwich and Yarmouth Turnpike Trust
Norwich to Block Hill Turnpike Trust
Stoke Ferry Turnpike Trust
Thetford (to Norwich) Turnpike Trust
Wells to Fakenham Turnpike Trust

Suffolk

TrustFoundedInitial act
CitationTitle
Aldeburgh to Yoxford Turnpike Trust
Brandon and Barton Turnpike Trust
Bury St Edmunds and Newmarket Turnpike Trust
Bury St Edmunds to Cranwich Turnpike Trust
Claydon, Blakenham, Brockford and Stowmarket Turnpike Trust
Haverhill to Shelford Turnpike Trust
Ipswich to Debenham Turnpike Trust
Ipswich to Helmingham Turnpike Trust
Ipswich to South Town, and Darsham to Bungay Turnpike Trust
Ipswich to Stratford St Mary Turnpike Trust
Lakenheath and Hockwold Turnpike Trust
Little Yarmouth Turnpike Trust
Mildenhall Burntfen Turnpike Trust
Scole Bridge to Bury St Edmunds Turnpike Trust
South Town Turnpike Trust
Sudbury to Bury St Edmunds Turnpike Trust
Thetford and Newmarket Turnpike Trust
Woodbridge to Eye Turnpike Trust

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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.

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References

  1. "Turnpikes and tolls". UK Parliament.