Turnpike trusts in Yorkshire

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This is a list of turnpike trusts that maintained roads in Yorkshire.

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 .

Trust Founded Initial act
Citation Title
  • Beverley to Kendal House Turnpike Trust
  • Beverley to Kexby Bridge Turnpike Trust
17644 Geo. 3. c. 76Beverley and Kexby Bridge Road Act 1764
An Act for repairing and widening the Road from Beverley to Kexby Bridge, in the County of York.
  • Beverley, Hessle and North Cave Turnpike Trust
17699 Geo. 3. c. 79Beverley to Hessle Ferry Turnpike Act 1769
An Act for repairing and widening the Road from Beverley to the Ferry at Hessle, and from the Malton Guide Post to the Gravel Pit at Cottingham, in the County of York.
  • Brough Turnpike Trust
  • Brough Ferry Turnpike Trust
  • Elloughton to Coney Clappers Turnpike Trust
177111 Geo. 3. c. 71Yorkshire Roads (No. 3) Act 1771
An Act for repairing and widening the Road from the Low Water Mark of the River Humber, at or near Brough Ferry, in the Parish of Elloughton, in the East Riding of the County of York to the North End of the Town of Brough, and from thence, through South Cave, to Coney Clappers, in South Newbald Holmes, in the said Riding.
  • Hull and Beverley Turnpike Trust
174317 Geo. 2. c. 25Kingston-upon-Hull and Beverley Road Act 1743
An Act for repairing the Road between the Town of Kingston upon Hull, and the Town of Beverley, in the East Riding of the County of York.
  • Hull and Hedon Turnpike Trust
174418 Geo. 2. c. 6Hedon and Hull Road Act 1744
An Act for repairing the Road leading from a Gate, commonly called Sacred Gate, on the South East Side of the Town of Hedon, in the East Riding of the County of York, through the said Town, to Hull North Bridge.
  • Hull and Hessle and Ferriby Turnpike Trust
18256 Geo. 4. c. cliiKingston-upon-Hull and Ferriby Road Act 1825
An Act for making and maintaining a Turnpike Road from the Town of Kingston-upon-Hull, through the Town of Hessle, to the East End of the Town of Ferriby, all in the County of the Town of Kingston-upon-Hull.
  • Hull and Kirk Ella Turnpike Trust
174418 Geo. 2. c. 4Kingston-upon-Hull Roads Act 1744
An Act for repairing the Road leading from the Town of Kingston upon Hull to and through the Town of Anlaby, and from thence to the Town of Kirk-Ella, in the County of the said Town of Kingston upon Hull.
  • Molescroft Turnpike Trust
  • Beverley, Molesworth and Kendale House Turnpike Trust
17666 Geo. 3. c. 59Beverley and Kendell House, and Molescroft and Bainton Balk Roads Act 1766
An Act for repairing and widening the Road from Beverley by Molscroft to Kendell-house, and from Molscroft to Bainion Balk, in the County of York.
  • Ottringham to Sunk Island Turnpike Trust
18366 & 7 Will. 4. c. 91Road from Sunk Island to Ottringham Act 1836
An Act to enable the Commissioners of His Majesty's Woods, Forests, Land Revenues, Works, and Buildings to make and maintain a Road from the Church in the Parish of Sunk Island to the Town of Ottringham in the East Riding of the County of York.
  • Patrington Turnpike Trust
  • Hedon and Patrington Haven Turnpike Trust
17601 Geo. 3. c. 35Sacred Gate and Patrington Creek Road Act 1760
An Act for amending the Road from Sacred Gate in the Parish of Thorngumbald to Pattrington Creek or Haven; and from the Guide Post in Winestead to Frodingham Gate in or near Widow Branton's Farm, in the County of York; and for scouring and cleansing the said Creek or Haven.
  • White-Cross Turnpike Trust
  • Leven to Beverley Turnpike Trust
17601 Geo. 3. c. 42White Cross and Beverley Roads Act 1760
An Act for repairing and amending the Road leading from Whitecross in the Parish of Leven in Holderness, in the East Riding of the County of York, to the Town of Beverley in the said County.
Wyton and Flinton Turnpike Trust17677 Geo. 3. c. 71Hedon and Hull Road Act 1766
An Act to enlarge the Term and Powers of an Act passed in the Eighteenth Year of King George the Second, for repairing the Road from Sacred Gate, on the South East Side of the Town of Hedon, in the East Riding of the County of York, through the said Town, to Hull North Bridge; and for amending the Road from the present Turnpike Bar in Wyton Holmes, through the Townships of Wyton and Sproatley, to the Guide Post in Flinton Lane near Humbleton Moor House, in the same Riding.
17655 Geo. 3. c. 99Roads from York and from Grimston Act 1765
An Act for amending and widening the Road from the City of York, by Grimston Smithy, to Kexby Bridge, and from Grimston Smithy aforesaid to a certain Gate at the Upper End of Garraby Hill, in the County of York.

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West Riding

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