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

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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

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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

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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  | Route

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Citation  | Title  | From  | To
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 | 1697 | 9 Will. 3. c. 18 | Gloucestershire Roads Act 1697
An Act for repairing the Highways from the Towne of Birdlipp and the Top of Crickley Hill in the County of Gloucester to the City of Gloucester.
1722 | 9 Geo. 1. c. 31 | Gloucestershire Highways Act 1722
An Act for repairing the Highways from the City of Gloucester to the Top of Birdlip Hill (being the Road to London), and from the Foot of the said Hill to the Top of Crickly Hill (being the Road to Oxford); and to oblige those concerned in the Receipt or Payment of any Monies, by virtue of an Act of the Ninth and Tenth Years of His late Majesty King William, touching the repairing the said Highways, to accompt for the same to the Trustees appointed by this Act. | Gloucester Northgate | Top of Birdlip Hill
Little Witcombe | Top of Crickley Hill
Over Turnpike Trust | 1769 |  | Over | Newent
1769 |  | Gloucester | Westbury-on-Severn
Painswick Turnpike Trust | 1778 |  |
Pucklechurch Turnpike Trust | 1756 |  |
Redbrook to St Arvans Turnpike Trust |  |  |
Sodbury Division Turnpike Trust | 1751 |  |
Southgate Turnpike Trust | 1751 |  |
Stroud and Bisley Turnpike Trust | 1823 |  |
Stroud and Chalford Turnpike Trust | 1814 |  |
Stroud and Gloucester (thru Pitchcombe) Turnpike Trust | 1818 |  |
Stroud to Sapperton Turnpike Trust |  |  |
Stroud, Caincross and Minchinhampton Turnpike Trust |  |  |
Stump Cross Turnpike Trust | 1792 |  |
Tewkesbury Turnpike Trust | 1756 |  |
Tewkesbury Severn Bridge and Roads Turnpike Trust | 1823 |  |
Winchcombe Turnpike Trust | 1792 |  |
Wootton Under Edge Turnpike Trust | 1725 |  |

## Somerset

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Trust  | Founded  | Initial act

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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

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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.