[Drop-head title:] An Act for repairing the Roads leading from the Western Part of the Parish of Shenfield, to Harwich in the County of Essex; and the Road leading from Chelmsford in the said County, to Sudbury in the County of Suffolk; and from Margretting to Malden in the County of Essex; and from Colchester to Langham in the same County.
London.
Printed by John Baskett, 1726.
Folio.
[2], 495-508pp. Disbound. Lightly spotted.
A rare survival of a Georgian act relating to improving turnpike roads in Essex and Suffolk.
The collection of tolls, nominally raised in order to defray road maintenance expenses, was overseen by numerous 'turnpike trusts', each established by an individual act of parliament. Universally despised, and frequently corrupt, the turnpike system was eventually rendered obsolete by the rise of the railways. In 1895 the system was discontinued, when responsibility for the roads was handed to local authorities.
£ 50.00
Antiquates Ref: 30918
The collection of tolls, nominally raised in order to defray road maintenance expenses, was overseen by numerous 'turnpike trusts', each established by an individual act of parliament. Universally despised, and frequently corrupt, the turnpike system was eventually rendered obsolete by the rise of the railways. In 1895 the system was discontinued, when responsibility for the roads was handed to local authorities.
