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The Local Government Act 1888 created county councils and gave them responsibility for maintaining the major roads. The abiding relic of the English toll roads is the number of houses with names like "Turnpike Cottage", the inclusion of "Bar" in place names and occasional road name: Turnpike Lane in northern London has given its name to an ...
The Hyde Park Gate in London, erected by the Kensington Turnpike Trust. This was the first toll point encountered along the Bath Road, upon leaving London.. Turnpike trusts were bodies set up by individual Acts of Parliament, with powers to collect road tolls for maintaining the principal roads in Britain from the 17th but especially during the 18th and 19th centuries.
The life of the trust was extended by further acts of Parliament, the Keighley to Kirkby Road (Yorkshire District) Act 1823 (4 Geo. 4. c. xlix), and the Keighley and Kendal Turnpike Road (Yorkshire District) Act 1855 (18 & 19 Vict. c. cliv). The trustees' qualification was the possession of land of the annual value of £100, or property worth ...
Although the trusts were abolished in the late-19th century, the roads themselves broadly remain as modern routes, and some of the original toll houses and roadside milestones have survived. The metropolitan county of Greater Manchester was created in 1974 and so the turnpike trusts predate its existence.
The first professional road builder to emerge during the Industrial Revolution was John Metcalf, who constructed about 180 miles (290 km) of turnpike road mainly in the north of England, from 1765, when Parliament passed an act authorising the creation of turnpike trusts to build toll funded roads in the Knaresborough area.
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John Reid Road, South Shields southern ring road A1301 A1309 in Trumpington: M11 in Great Chesterford: Previously allocated to a road from Sadlers Farm to Canvey Island. This became part of the A130 and B1014 (the old B1014 became part of the A130). The current A1301 was created on a former section of the A130 when sections of the A130 were ...
Road pricing schemes in place in the UK as of 2012 include road congestion pricing in London and Durham; the London low emission zone which is a pollution charge scheme only affecting trucks with less efficient engines entering London; and the M6 toll, the only existing toll road on a strategic road in the UK. The Dartford crossings toll was ...