Turnpike trusts in South West England

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 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 west of England: Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Somerset and Wiltshire.

Cornwall

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Trust Founded Initial act
Citation Title
Bodmin Turnpike Trust 1769 9 Geo. 3. c. 69 Bodmin Roads Act 1769
Bodmin and Roche Turnpike Trust 1835 5 & 6 Will. 4. c. cv Bodmin Roads Act 1835
Callington Turnpike Trust 1764 4 Geo. 3. c. 48 Callington Roads Act 1764
Camelford, Wadebridge and St Columb Turnpike Trust 1759 33 Geo. 2. c. 42 Cornwall Roads Act 1759
Creed and St Just Turnpike Trust 1762 2 Geo. 3. c. 46 Cornwall Roads Act 1762
Hayle Bridge Causeway Turnpike Trust 1825 6 Geo. 4. c. iv Grigg's Quay, Hayle Bridge and Phillack Road (Cornwall) Act 1825
Helston Turnpike Trust 1760 1 Geo. 3. c. 32 Cornwall Roads Act 1760
Launceston Turnpike Trust 1759 33 Geo. 2. c. 59 Launceston Roads Act 1759
Liskeard Turnpike Trust 1760 1 Geo. 3. c. 25 Cornwall and Devon Roads Act 1760
Penryn and Redruth Turnpike Trust 1763 3 Geo. 3. c. 52 Cornwall Roads Act 1763
Penzance to St Just Turnpike Trust 1863 26 & 27 Vict. c. xxvii Penzance and St. Just Turnpike Roads Act 1863
Saltash Turnpike Trust 1762 2 Geo. 3. c. 43 Saltash Roads Act 1762
St Austell and Lostwithiel Turnpike Trust 1760 1 Geo. 3. c. 27 Cornwall Roads Act 1760
Trebarwith Sands Road Turnpike Trust 1825 6 Geo. 4. c.84 Trebarwith Sands and Condolden Bridge Road Act 1825
Truro Turnpike Trust 1754 27 Geo. 2. c.41 Truro Roads Act 1754

Devon

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Trust Founded Initial act
Citation Title
Ashburton Turnpike Trust
Barnstaple Turnpike Trust
Bideford Turnpike Trust
Braunton Turnpike Trust
Combe Martin Turnpike Trust
Combe Martin & Ilfracombe Turnpike Trust
Countess Wear Bridge Turnpike Trust
Cullompton Turnpike Trust
Dartmoor & Roborough Turnpike Trust
Dartmouth, Torquay & Shaldon Turnpike Trust
Devon & Dorset (Axminster) Turnpike Trust
Exeter Turnpike Trust
Exmouth Turnpike Trust
Great Torrington Turnpike Trust
Honiton Turnpike Trust
Honiton & Ilminster Turnpike Trust
Honiton & Sidmouth Turnpike Trust
Kingsbridge & Dartmouth Turnpike Trust
Modbury Turnpike Trust
Moretonhampstead Turnpike Trust 1772 12 Geo. 3 c.93 Devon Roads (No.2) Act 1772
Newton Bushell Turnpike Trust 1760 1 Geo. 3 c.34 Devon Roads Act 1760
Okehampton Turnpike Trust
Plymouth & Exeter Road Turnpike Trust
Plymouth & Tavistock Turnpike Trust
Plymouth Turnpike Trust
Sidmouth to Cullompton Turnpike Trust
South Molton Turnpike Trust
Stonehouse Turnpike Trust
Taunton Turnpike Trust
Tavistock Turnpike Trust
Tedburn St Mary to Chudleigh Turnpike Trust
Teignmouth & Dawlish Turnpike Trust
Tiverton Turnpike Trust
Totnes & Bridgetown-Pomeroy Turnpike Trust

Dorset

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Trust Founded Initial act
Citation Title
Abbotsbury & Bridport Turnpike Trust
Blandford & Poole Turnpike Trust
Blandford & Wimborne Turnpike Trust
Bridport Turnpike Trust
Bridport & Broadwindsor Turnpike Trust
Cerne Abbas Turnpike Trust
Dorchester & Wool Turnpike Trust
Harnham, Blandford & Dorchester Turnpike Trust
Lyme Regis Turnpike Trust
Maiden Newton Turnpike Trust
Poole Turnpike Trust
Puddletown & Wimborne Turnpike Trust
Shaftesbury & Blandford Turnpike Trust
Sherborne Turnpike Trust
Vale of Blackmoor Turnpike Trust
Wareham Turnpike Trust
Weymouth Backwater Bridge & Road Turnpike Trust
Weymouth, Melcombe Regis & Dorchester Turnpike Trust
Yeovil Turnpike Trust

Gloucestershire

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Trust Founded Initial act
Citation Title
Berkeley, Dursley Turnpike Trust
Berkeley, Dursley, Wotton Under Edge, Frocester and Caincross Turnpike Trust
Bibury or Dancy's Fancy Turnpike Trust
Bristol Turnpike Trust
Broadway to Mickleton Turnpike Trust
Burford to Preston Turnpike Trust
Cainscross Turnpike Trust
Campden and Clifford Turnpike Trust
Chapel-on-the-Heath and Bourton-on-the-Hill Turnpike Trust
Cheltenham Turnpike Trust
Cheltenham and Gloucester Turnpike Trust
Cheltenham and Painswick Turnpike Trust
Cheltenham and Tewkesbury Turnpike Trust
Chipping Campden Turnpike Trust
Cirencester Turnpike Trust
Cirencester and Bath Turnpike Trust
Cirencester and Wootton Bassett Turnpike Trust
Cirencester to Birdlip Turnpike Trust
Cirencester to Stroud Turnpike Trust
Cirencester to Tetbury Turnpike Trust
Cleeve and Evesham Turnpike Trust
Coldharbour Turnpike Trust
Crickley Hill to Frogg Mill Turnpike Trust
Elton Turnpike Trust
Forest of Dean Turnpike Trust
Foss and Cross (Stow on the Wold) Turnpike Trust
Frocester Turnpike Trust
Haw Bridge and Roads Turnpike Trust
Huntley and Mitcheldean Turnpike Trust
Kingsholm Turnpike Trust
Kingswood Turnpike Trust
Lightpill and Birdlip Turnpike Trust
Maisemore Turnpike Trust
Malmesbury Turnpike Trust
Marshfield Turnpike Trust
Minchinhampton, Tetbury and Bisley Turnpike Trust
Nailsworth, Woodchester and Dudbridge Turnpike Trust
Newent Turnpike Trust
Newnham to Little Dean Turnpike Trust
Northgate Turnpike Trust
Over Turnpike Trust
Painswick Turnpike Trust
Pucklechurch Turnpike Trust
Redbrook to St Arvans Turnpike Trust
Sodbury Division Turnpike Trust
Southgate Turnpike Trust
Stroud and Bisley Turnpike Trust
Stroud and Chalford Turnpike Trust
Stroud and Gloucester (thru Pitchcombe) Turnpike Trust
Stroud to Sapperton Turnpike Trust
Stroud, Caincross and Minchinhampton Turnpike Trust
Stump Cross Turnpike Trust
Tewkesbury Turnpike Trust
Tewkesbury Severn Bridge and Roads Turnpike Trust
Winchcombe Turnpike Trust
Wootton Under Edge Turnpike Trust

Somerset

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Trust Founded Initial act
Citation Title
Allington to Crewkerne Turnpike Trust
Bath Turnpike Trust
Black Dog Turnpike Trust
Bridgwater Turnpike Trust
Bristol Turnpike Trust
Bruton Turnpike Trust
Chard Turnpike Trust
Crewkerne Turnpike Trust
Frome Turnpike Trust
High Ham Turnpike Trust
Honiton Turnpike Trust
Honiton & Ilminster Turnpike Trust
Ilchester Turnpike Trust
Ilminster Turnpike Trust
Langport, Somerton & Castle Cary Turnpike Trust
Martock & South Petherton Turnpike Trust
Minehead Roads Turnpike Trust
Radstock Turnpike Trust
Shepton Mallet Turnpike Trust
Taunton Turnpike Trust
Tiverton Turnpike Trust
Wedmore Turnpike Trust
Wells Turnpike Trust
Wells, Highbridge & Cheddar Turnpike Trust
West Harptree Turnpike Trust
Weston-super-Mare & Worle Turnpike Trust
Wincanton Turnpike Trust
Wiveliscombe Turnpike Trust
Yeovil Turnpike Trust

Wiltshire

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Trust Founded Initial act
Citation Title
Amesbury Turnpike Trust
Beckhampton Turnpike Trust
Blackdog Turnpike Trust
Bradford Turnpike Trust
Bradford to Lacock Turnpike Trust
Calne Turnpike Trust
Calne, Lyneham & Hillmartin Turnpike Trust
Chippenham Turnpike Trust
Chippenham to Togg Hill Turnpike Trust (Draycot Turnpike Trust)
Christian Malford to Shillingford Turnpike Trust
Combe Bridge to Bradford Turnpike Trust
Corsham Turnpike Trust
Crudwell & Minty Turnpike Trust
Devizes Turnpike Trust
Draycot or Upper District Turnpike Trust
Everley Turnpike Trust
Fisherton, Wilton etc. Turnpike Trust
Holt & Wraxall Turnpike Trust
Hurdcot to Barford Turnpike Trust
Lechlade to Swindon Turnpike Trust
Malmesbury Turnpike Trust
Marlborough & Froxfield Turnpike Trust
Marlborough & Sailsbury Turnpike Trust
Marlborough & Swindon Turnpike Trust
Meadbrook to Christian Malford Turnpike Trust
Melksham Turnpike Trust
New Sarum to Dorchester Turnpike Trust
Sarum & Eling Turnpike Trust
Seend to Box Turnpike Trust
Seend to Trowbridge Turnpike Trust
Swindon & Christian Malford Turnpike Trust
Swindon & Cold Harbour Turnpike Trust
Swindon & Hungerford Turnpike Trust
Swindon & Marlborough Turnpike Trust
Swindon, Calne & Cricklade Turnpike Trust
Trowbridge Turnpike Trust
Warminster Turnpike Trust
Warminster to Beckington Turnpike Trust
West Lavington to Seend Turnpike Trust
Westbury Turnpike Trust
Whitesheet Turnpike Trust
Winterslow to Harnham Bridge Turnpike Trust
Wooton Basset & Marlborough Turnpike Trust

References

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  • Rosevear, Alan. "List of English Turnpike Trusts". Turnpike Roads in England & Wales.
  • "Cornwall Turnpikes". Society for All British and Irish Road Enthusiasts.
  • "Devon Turnpikes". Society for All British and Irish Road Enthusiasts.
  • "Dorset Turnpikes". Society for All British and Irish Road Enthusiasts.
  • "Gloucestershire Turnpikes". Society for All British and Irish Road Enthusiasts.
  • "Somerset Turnpikes". Society for All British and Irish Road Enthusiasts.
  • "Wiltshire Turnpikes". Society for All British and Irish Road Enthusiasts.
  • Albert, William (2007). The Turnpike Road System in England: 1663-1840. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521033916.
  1. ^ "Turnpikes and tolls". UK Parliament.
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