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 Trust1764 4 Geo. 3. c. 76An Act for repairing and widening the Road from Beverley to Kexby Bridge, in the County of York.
Beverley to Kexby Bridge Turnpike Trust
Beverley, Hessle and North Cave Turnpike Trust
Brough Ferry Turnpike Trust
Elloughton to Coney Clappers Turnpike Trust
Hull and Beverley Turnpike Trust
Hull and Hedon Turnpike Trust
Hull and Hessle and Ferriby Turnpike Trust
Hull and Kirk Ella Turnpike Trust
Leven to Beverley Turnpike Trust
Molescroft Turnpike Trust
Ottringham to Sunk Island Turnpike Trust
Patrington Turnpike Trust
White-Cross Turnpike Trust
Wyton and Flinton Turnpike Trust
York to Kexby Bridge, Grimston & Stonedale End Turnpike Trust

North Riding

TrustFoundedInitial act
CitationTitle
Boroughbridge and Durham Turnpike Trust1744 18 Geo. 2. c. 8An 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

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References

  1. "Turnpikes and tolls". UK Parliament.