Turnpike trusts were an early and popular special purpose authority in England.

On the creation of a turnpike trust in 1744 the main road was greatly improved.

A turnpike trust was established in the 1730s to improve upkeep of the road.

All these roads were served by the Turnpike trusts in the 18th/19th centuries.

A turnpike Trust had existed since 1765, but this included new maintenance provisions.

The surfaces of many roads were improved by turnpike trusts'.

The Turnpike trusts were gradually abolished starting in the 1870s.

The diagram below shows what the outcome of Turnpike trusts was for roads.

Then, the roads were much as they had been forty or fifty years before, under the turnpike trusts.

From the eighteenth century a number of turnpike trusts were set up to build and maintain roads.

The matter was not finally resolved until 1834, with the formation of a Turnpike Trust.

After the end of the Turnpike trusts, roads have been funded from taxation.

He was also a commissioner for the Turnpike Trust.

The maintenance of roads passed to local authorities in 1888, although by then most turnpike trusts had already declined.

The road was created in 1751 when the Turnpike Trust upgraded a local footpath.

Turnpike trusts were established in England and Wales from about 1706.

The turnpike trusts borrowed capital for road maintenance against the security of tolls.

This road was maintained by a Droitwich turnpike trust eatablished in 1755.

A road system originally built by turnpike trusts.

Turnpike trusts were formed to keep up and improve the "King's Highway".

It may be that the same suppliers also made milestones for the turnpike trusts as the two are sometimes of very similar appearance.

Bury New Road, now the main thoroughfare was constructed by a turnpike trust in 1826.

The turnpike trusts were abolished in 1880, the year that the railway line to Melton opened.

However, the road was laid out, essentially in its present form (except where there are modern bypasses) by a series of 18th century turnpike trusts.

He was a man of considerable wealth, who also held shares in several large hotel companies and Turnpike Trusts.