This site has page clusters dedicated to;

· the history of the Turnpike Roads

· the Tollhouses that were built at turnpike gates to collect tolls from road users,

· the Milestones that informed travellers of the distance to the next town, and

· the Road Users who benefited from the improved highway.

Also features that preceded the turnpikes, particularly

· the Wayside Crosses that were waymarkers on the old highways.

Just click on the highlighted word to reach the relevant page. - see below for a list of summary tables and maps

Photographs of tollhouses are stored on Flickr, not on this website. To reach these illustrations and notes go to the Tollhouses page and follow the click-links to the relevant sets of pictures on Flickr. Thumbnails pictures give an overview, click on the descriptions below the pictures to learn more about individual buildings. To view all the pictures follow the Tollhouse Alan photostream.

• Pictures and notes characterising the surviving tollhouses by their design can be accessed from the tollhouse architecture page.
• Pictures of wayside crosses, milestones, vehicles and road structure are also on Flickr – go to sets off the main tollhouse Alan photostream

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An Index of Pages on this web site

click on the coloured links below to go directly to a page

Turnpike Roads - general

Turnpikes; overview of county differences

Details of the turnpikes road in counties of; Berkshire; Cornwall, Devon; Dorset; Somerset

Some information on Oxfordshire Turnpike Trustees

A study of Turnpike roads around Reading and notes on Roman Roads near Reading

Material relating to specific turnpike trusts is reached from the list below

Cornwall Roads	Devon Roads	Somerset Roads	Dorset
Bodmin Bodmin and Roche Callington Haleworthy, Camelford, Wadebridge and St Columb Creed and St Just Hayle Bridge Causeway Helston Launceston Liskeard Penryn and Redruth Penzance to St Just Saltash St Austell and Lostwithiel Trebarwith Sands Road Truro	Ashburton Barnstaple Bideford Braunton Combe Martin Combe Martin and Ilfracombe Countess Wear Bridge Cullompton Dartmoor and Roborough Dartmouth, Torquay and Shaldon Devon and Dorset (Axminster) Exeter Exmouth Great Torrington Honiton Honiton and Ilminster Honiton and Sidmouth Kingsbridge and Dartmouth Lyme Regis (Charmouth to Whimple) Lyme Regis (Crewkerne Branch) Modbury Moretonhampstead Newton Bushell Okehampton Plymouth and Tavistock (New Road) Plymouth, Eastern Sidmouth to Cullompton South Molton Stonehouse Tavistock Tedburn St Mary to Chudleigh Teignmouth and Dawlish Tiverton Totnes and Bridgetown-Pomeroy Trusts based in other counties Launceston Saltash Wiveliscombe	Bath Black Dog (Bath and Warminster) Bridgwater Bruton Chard Crewkerne Frome High Ham and Ashcott Ilchester Ilminster Langport, Somerton and Castle Cary Martock and South Petherton Minehead Roads Radstock Shepton Mallet Taunton Wedmore Wells Wells and Highbridge West Harptry Weston-super-Mare and Worle Wincanton Wiveliscombe Yeovil Trusts from Other Counties Bristol Sherborne Vale of Blackmoor Trowbridge Honiton Honiton and Ilminster	Lyme Regis (Crewkerne Div) Sherborne Vale of Blackmoor

Tollhouses – general notes

Tollhouse Design a review of the styles

Milestones – an overview

Non-Turnpike Milemarkers - a discusion of those markers that were erected before and after the turnpike era

Early Way Markers – an overview

Ancient Stone Crosses in Devon - a detailed assessment of the stone crosses that survive in Devon, including Dartmoor

Road Users. - the traffic on the turnpikes

London Carriers and Inns – historic records

Tables and maps

· List of Turnpike Trusts in England

· Map of turnpike roads in; Berkshire, Cornwall, Dorset, Devon, Somerset

· List of surviving toll houses in England

· List of tollhouse sites in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Cornwall, Dorset, Devon, Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, Somerset.

· List of Ancient Stone Crosses surviving in Cornwall and Devon and elsewhere

· A distribution map of Wayside Crosses in Devon

Talks on Turnpikes etc

If you have any questions or more information about particular turnpikes or tollhouses,

then please contact me at rosevear1@aol.com.

This page created Jan 11^th 2008 by Alan Rosevear

Last revised 27th July 2010.

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